Prison was a univ where I learned a lot, says Nalini as she walks free after 31 yrs

Chennai/Madurai: A day after the Supreme Court ordered their release "forthwith", all the six remaining life-term convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case were freed from four jails in Tamil Nadu on Saturday.

After walking out, Nalini, 55, waited outside the jail gate in Vellore and held on to her husband Sriharan's hand, extended from inside a police vehicle in which he left, and jogged beside it before breaking down, report A Selvaraj and Kaushik Kannan.

She thanked the Tamil Nadu and central governments and said prison was a "university" where she had learned a lot. "My husband sees this release as a miracle," said Nalini, who was arrested in 1991.