Nalini wants HC to allow husband to travel; bench refers case to CJ

CHENNAI: Nalini Sriharan, a freed life convict in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, has approached Madras high court to permit her husband Sriharan alias Murugan, a freed co-convict currently lodged in the special camp for foreigners in Trichy, to travel to Sri Lankan embassy at Chennai to apply for passport.

She claimed that her husband, a Sri Lankan national, cannot return to his country in view of threats to his life in the country.

She added that since the authorities of the special camp have refused permission for her husband to travel outside the camp, she has approached the high court.

When the plea came up for hearing before a division bench of Justice M Sundar and Justice R Sakthivel, the petitioner submitted that Murugan and herself have decided to move to the United Kingdom and settle with their daughter, a resident of London.

The bench however, forwarded the petition to the Chief Justice to decide as to whether the petition should be adjudicated by a division bench or a single judge.