Rajiv Gandhi assassination case | Four convicts lodged in Tiruchi Special Camp after prison release

Heavy posse of police personnel deployed at the camp to mount round-the-clock vigil

The four life convicts — Murugan, Santhan, Robert Payas and Jayakumar — in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case were lodged in the Special Camp at Tiruchi in the late hours of Saturday, November 12, 2022, after the Supreme Court ordered their release. 

The convicts were brought amid tight police escort from the Central Prison at Vellore and Chennai to the Special Camp functioning near the Tiruchi Central Prison at around 11.30 p.m. and accommodated inside. 

Police and official sources said the four have been accommodated in two separate rooms inside the sprawling camp where inmates belonging to different nationalities have been lodged. 

While Murugan and Santhan stay in one room, Robert Payas and Jayakumar have been given another room inside the camp which comes under the administrative and operational control of the Tiruchi District Collector.

Security has been beefed up at the camp with over 100 police personnel including those from the Tamil Nadu Special Police Battalion having been deployed outside and inside.

A senior police officer in the rank of an Assistant Commissioner of Police has been posted to head the police teams deployed at the camp to mount a strict vigil round the clock, said police sources. 

The four convicts have been kept in a couple of rooms so that they do not mingle with other foreign inmates, said police and official sources.