India’s Supreme Court has ordered the release of one of the men convicted of involvement in the 1991 murder of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi.
AG Perarivalan had spent over 30 years in jail. In 1998, he was given a death sentence, but it was later commuted.
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Arrested aged 19, Perarivalan was convicted of procuring batteries that were used in the bomb to kill Gandhi.
The ex-PM was assassinated by a female suicide bomber as he addressed an election rally in Tamil Nadu state.
Gandhi’s killing was widely seen as retaliation for his having sent Indian peacekeepers to Sri Lanka in 1987 when he was prime minister.
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