CHENNAI: The mother of a life convict found guilty in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, and serving his sentence in the Vellore Central Prison, has moved the Madras High Court to shift her son to the Madurai prison.
Justice V. Dhanapalan, before whom the writ petition filed by Rajeswari, mother of P. Ravichandran, came up for admission on Wednesday, ordered notice returnable in four weeks. The petitioner said she lost her husband, employed in the Agriculture Department, in May 2003.
She was surviving on pension alone. As she lived at Aruppukkottai, she found it difficult to visit her son, lodged in a prison 600 km away.
Maintaining that more frequent visits and interaction would have a positive effect on Ravichandran, the petitioner said though he was entitled to visits by relatives and friends twice a week, the prisoner was unable to get many visitors in view of the place of his incarceration.
Though Rule 568(iv) of the Tamil Nadu Prison Rules gives powers to the Additional Director-General of Prisons to transfer a prisoner to another jail on humanitarian or rehabilitation grounds, her repeated pleas to authorities in the past eight years had not evoked any response, Ms. Rajeswari said.
The right guaranteed in the prison rules had become illusory in the case of her son, she said, adding she was unable to make frequent visits due to her health condition and old age.
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