Extend parole time for Arivu, pleads mother

Arputhammal detailed the of ailments her husband T Gnanasekaran aka Kuildasan, her daughter Anbumani and Arivu, were suffering from and made the request for parole extension. 

“Since my husband and daughter are still under constant supervision and treatment, Perarivalan’s stay will boost the spirit to fight their ailment and immensely help to regain their health if the ordinary leave is extended for another 30 days,” she reasoned.

Citing the prolonged incarceration, Arputhammal observed it took a toll on Perarivalan who developed chronic hypertension in 1996, arthritis and irritable bowel syndrome in the next decade and was diagnosed with cystitis and chronic prostatitis in 2015. Her son’s sufferings, according to her, affected her besides increasing her ageing ailments. 

She had also annexed the list of treatments and results of various tests administered on the family members in support of her petition. Based on the state’s direction, the Vellore Prison authorities granted him ordinary leave for 30 days on August 24, under Rule 19 of the Tamil Nadu Suspension of Sentence Rules, 1982, to meet his ailing father.

As the parole ends on September 24, Arputhammal preferred the present petition to the CM seeking extension of the same by a month. She quoted the subclause 2 of Rule 22 of the TN Suspension of Sentence Rules, 1982, which stated that the period of ordinary leave shall not exceed beyond one month at a time unless it was extended by the government. Perarivalan has been lodged in Jail for the last 26 years. 

“I humbly request your good offices to consider the fact that the state government took a decision to remit the remaining portion of the sentence on two occasions, on February 19, 2014, and March 2, 2016, while deciding the petition for extension,” her letter to the CM stated. 

The 46-year-old, who was handed over to the CBI when he was 19, is the second life convict in the case to be granted parole after Nalini, who was twice granted ordinary leave to attend the funeral of her father and later to attend a ceremony connected to it.