India receives confirmation of LTTE chief’s death – Chidambaram
February 1, 2010 03:04 pm
The CBI has received the “documentation” confirming the
death of LTTE Chief V Prabhakaran, prime accused in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination
from the government of
“The CBI has told me that they received documentation from the Government of
Sri Lanka confirming the death of Prabhakaran,” the Home Minister said.
The CBI had said in a recent RTI reply that it was still awaiting the
certificate of Prabhakaran’s death from the authorities in
Lankan forces had recovered the body of Prabhakaran on May 18 last year.
In the reply dated January 27 to the RTI query, B N Mishra, Superintendent of
Police at the Multi Disciplinary Monitoring Agency (under the CBI to
investigate the case) said, “The matter is regularly being pursued through
diplomatic channel.
PTI
