Why rajiv gandhi was killed

Rajiv Gandhi waved at the crowd and proceeded towards the dais where the other speakers awaited him. He stopped midway to relish the song by Kokila Vani. He congratulated her. Meanwhile, Tanu rushed forward with a sandal garland in hand. Inspector Anasuya blocked her but Rajiv Gandhi told the officer to let her in.

Tanu bent over as if to touch the leader's feet in reverence. Rajiv Gandhi bowed too. That was the final moment. Everything vanished into a huge ball of fire. The only thing Philip remembered was a deafening noise, like thousands of firecrackers bursting together.

He was thrown into the air. When he opened his eyes, he thought he was looking through ripples of water. He realized that his hand was covered in blood and he smelled burnt flesh. Most of the people had to run for their lives, including some of the policemen. Philip just laid there, waiting for whatever was to come. He was noticed by police inspector Chacko, who he had chided earlier in the day for not checking public smoking by the cops.

Chacko ran up to Philip. Philip said that he could walk but Chacko knew better. The inspector carried Philip into a jeep which was left there. Philip asked about Rajiv Gandhi and Chacko said he was no more. The additional superintendent's official car was nowhere to be seen. The driver had fled. Chacko found a jeep and left the officer in the back of it before rushing off to rescue the next person.

Philip was helped by a stranger, who kept the injured man's head on his lap and offered him water. When Philip asked, the stranger introduced him as Purushothaman.

He would never hear from him again. Philip was completely bedridden for six months after the explosion. He is still carrying hundreds of splinters from the bomb. He likes to say that those steel splinters have strengthened him. He was one of the major witnesses in all the trials related to the assassination. In fact, that May evening was not the first time Philip came face to face with death. He was caught in a strong current while swimming in the sea off Thoothukudi during his IPS training.

He was unconscious when his colleagues rescued him and brought him to the shore. The providential escape at Sriperumbudur convinced him that he was destined to something more useful. The unknown stranger who accompanied him from the site of the blast to the hospital inspired Philip to help out others. Two years later, as a superintendent of police in the Ramnad district, he launched a project — Friends of Police — to bring the force closer to the people. The community policing project received the British Queen's award for creativity in police training.

As an inspector general in the social welfare department, he made headlines by organising 10 lakh tea parties to break the barriers of caste discrimination. Philip is married to Sakhi, an interior designer. Philip was motivated to join the civil service by the then Karnataka director general of police Abraham Varghese, who felicitated him when he emerged as the first rank holder in the state higher secondary exams in the state.

Chennai Power Cut. Covid vaccine registration. With the permission of a sessions court in Chennai, he is allowed to keep the badge and bloodstained cap from the day for a month as remembrance.

As the officer recollects the horrors of the night, he says he has got closure. I was assistant superintendent of police of Kancheepuram then. Sriperumbudur was my last police station on the district border. I was assisting the additional SP, who was given overall responsibility by superintendent of police Mohammed Iqbal.

In the present circumstances of the Covid pandemic, courts are also recognising the need to decongest prisons. Share Via. By Divya Chandrababu. The fate of the convicts The assassination of Rajiv Gandhi is also alive in the public sphere, with a debate over the release of the seven convicts in the case who are serving a life term inside prisons in Tamil Nadu.

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