Rajiv case may be closed

Eighteen years after the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi, the case is likely to be closed soon.

Eighteen years after the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi, the case is likely to be closed soon.

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On Thursday, Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa assured National Security Advisor MK Narayanan and Foreign Secretary Shiv-shankar Menon that Lanka would soon hand over a death certificate of LTTE chief V. Prabhakaran to India.

“If the government of Sri Lanka has given a public assurance, we will go by that. We will, of course, wait for a death certificate from the government so the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case can be, sort of, closed,” Narayanan said after meeting Rajapaksa.