Nalini Murugan, serving a life sentence as an accused in the Rajiv Gandhi murder case, has moved a court application seeking her premature release due to good conduct, the fact of her being a mother, of having educated herself in prison, and of having already served the stipulated term allowing premature release. Several earlier similar petitions by her had been rejected by the courts. She is the only surviving member of the death squad that killed Rajiv Gandhi. She was sentenced to death. But Rajiv’s widow, Sonia Gandhi, pleaded that her sentence be commuted to a life term because Nalini had become a mother.