Nalini Sriharan, serving a life term in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, threatened to kill herself in prison last night after being accused of harassing another convict, a top Tamil Nadu official said on Tuesday. Sunil Kumar Singh the chief of the Tamil Nadu Prisons Department said that “It was more like blackmail or a threat. She did not attempt suicide”. The incident took place at the Vellore Women’s prison, where Nalini, 55, has been jailed for nearly three decades.
“Nalini threatened to kill herself when the jail was inquiring into a harassment complaint. Another life convict has alleged that Nalini harasses her and wants to be shifted to a different cell. Nalini threatened to commit suicide if the woman was shifted,” Mr Singh said.
But Nalini’s lawyer P Pugalenthi was alleging torture by jail officials, appealed to the Tamil Nadu government to arrange Nalini’s transfer to another prison.
