Nalini's father Sankaranarayan died yesterday and cremation is likely to take place in Chennai tomorrow, the sources said.
They said the request of Nalini, currently in the central prison here, for parole is being considered as per jail rules.
Arrested about a month after the assassination which shook the country on May 21, 1991, Nalini was sentenced to death by hanging after being convicted on 16 counts of murder.
However, her sentence was later commuted to life imprisonment at the intervention of Congress President Sonia Gandhi who pleaded for clemency to her.
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