The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) is banned as a terrorist organisation in India. Its leader,Velu Pillai Prabakaran, is one of the principal accused in the case relating to the assassination of RajivGandhi, India's former Prime Minister, in 1991. The other accused in the case have already been convicted bythe Indian courts and some of them sentenced to death. Prabakaran is an absconding accused and a request fromthe Government of India for his arrest and extradition to face trial has been pending with the Government ofSri Lanka.