Rajiv case accused give up fast

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Chennai, Jun 20 (UNI) Nalini and Murugan, convicted in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case and lodged in the Vellore Central Prison, gave up their six-day-old fast last night.

The couple began their fast on June 14 demanding their 15-year-old daughter Arithra, living in Sri Lanka, be given a student visa for studying in Tamil Nadu.

After receiving a message that the Indian High Commission in Colombo promised to 'positively' consider their daughter's visa application, Nalini and Murugan called off their fast, their advocate V Elangovan told UNI here today.

Arithra, a Sri Lankan National, was born in the high-security Poonamallee Jail in Chennai when Nalini and Murugan were facing trial in the sensational case.

She had been living with her grandparents in the Island Nation.

Arithra, who passed her tenth standard examination, had applied to the Indian High Commission in Colombo for a student visa.

While Nalini's death sentence was commuted to life, the clemency petition of her husband Murugan, who too was sentenced to death, was pending before the President.

The couple had earlier gone on a week-long fast in December last year demanding issue of visa to their daughter to enable her to visit them in the prison.

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