AG Perarivalan was released today from remand custody today after the Supreme Court of India granted bail to A.G. Perarivalan, who was convicted for the assassination of Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi on 2 December 1989. The court took into account the trauma he suffered during 30 years of imprisonment.

He was arrested on 11 June 1991 at Periyar Thidal, Chennai by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), at age 19. Accused of purchasing the battery that was used to trigger the bomb that killed the former Prime Minister, he was subsequently sentenced to death in May 1999. His sentence was commuted to life in 2014 followed by The Tamil Nadu Government deciding to order the release of all the seven (six of them Sri Lankan Nationals Connected to the LTTE) who were convicted of the Rajiv Gandhi Assassination.