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The last co-conspirators jailed for the 1991 assassination of former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi have walked out of prison.
This comes a day after the country’s Supreme Court ordered their release.
Gandhi was killed by a woman suicide bomber at an election rally in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu in a plot by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), a Sri Lankan armed separatist group.
India’s apex court allowed the release of the six convicts, citing their “satisfactory conduct” in prison and the fact that they had already served more than three decades behind bars.
Three of the six convicts released on Saturday had initially been condemned to death before their sentences were commuted.
Gandhi became India’s youngest prime minister after his mother and predecessor Indira Gandhi was assassinated by her Sikh bodyguards in 1984.
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