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Rajive Gandhi killers pass Plus 2 exams
Wednesday May 23, 2012 07:47:48 AM,
IANS
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Chennai: Even as they
face the gallows, two convicts in former prime minister Rajiv
Gandhi's assassination case have come out with flying colours uin
the Plus 2 examinations in Tamil Nadu.
According to officials, Murugan alian Sriharan and A.G.
Perarivalan alias Arivu had scored high marks.
Murugan got 200/200 in Commerce and an overall 80 percentage
(983/1,200 marks) while Perarivalan scored 91 percent (1,096/1,200
marks).
The two wrote the exams as private candidates at the Vellore jail.
A total of 35 prisoners from different jails in Tamil Nadu
appeared for the Plus 2 exams this year. All of them have passed.
"The atmosphere in the prisions is changing for better. We look at
prisioners as individuals," S.K. Dogra, the additional director
general of police, told IANS.
According to him, there seems to be an improvemnt in self
discipline among prisioners and they work hard.
"Further there is now far more trust between the prisioners and
the jail officials," Dogra added.
A Tamil Tiger woman suicide bomber assassinated Gandhi at an
election meeting near Chennai on May 21, 1991.
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