Chennai: Tamil Nadu government Wednesday said
the call records of mobile phone recovered from Nalini, a life
convict in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, lodged in high
security Vellore prison, would be well-analyzed before
arriving at a conclusion.
Law Minister Duraimurugan told the state assembly that
besides the mobile phone, two SIM cards were also received
from Nalini`s cell.
The mobile phone was found from a cloth bag, he said.
"When the jail authorities tried to recover the mobile
phone from the bag, Nalini snatched it and threw it into a
nearby toilet. However, an official acted quickly and
recovered the phone from the toilet. The instrument has now
been sent for proper analysis and we can make any conclusion
only after getting the details of call records", he said.
Whether Nalini made calls to foreign countries or not can
be ascertained only after the analysis, he told the assembly.
He said it was the first case of mobile phone being
recovered from an inmate of the Vellore special prison for
women.
The device was recovered from Nalini during a routine
check yesterday.
Nalini had recently appealed in the Madras High Court
seeking premature release which the court declined on
different grounds including gravity of the crime.
A Division bench of the Madras High court had rejected
her petition on April 6 observing that the 44-year-old Nalini
had committed the crime in a cunning and meticulous manner
which killed the former Prime Minister in Sriperumbudur on May
21, 1991.
PTI
