<P> The explosion killed Gandhi, Rajaratnam, and at least 25 other people . The assassination was captured by a 21 - year - old local photographer, whose camera and film were found at the site . The cameraman, named Haribabu, died in the blast but the camera remained intact . Gandhi's mutilated body was airlifted to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in New Delhi for post-mortem, reconstruction and embalming . </P> <P> A state funeral was held for Gandhi on 24 May 1991; it was telecast live and was attended by dignitaries from over 60 countries . He was cremated at Veer Bhumi, on the banks of the river Yamuna near the shrines of his mother (Indira Gandhi), brother (Sanjay Gandhi), and grandfather Jawaharlal Nehru . </P> <P> The Supreme Court judgement, by Justice K.T. Thomas, confirmed that Gandhi was killed because of personal animosity by the LTTE chief Prabhakaran arising from his sending the Indian Peace Keeping Force (IPKF) to Sri Lanka and the alleged IPKF atrocities against Sri Lankan Tamils . The Gandhi administration had already antagonised other Tamil militant organisations like PLOTE for reversing the 1988 military coup in Maldives . The judgement further cites the death of Thileepan in a hunger strike and the suicide by 12 LTTE cadres in a vessel in Oct 1987 . </P> <P> In the Jain Commission report, various people and agencies are named as suspects in the murder of Rajiv Gandhi . Among them, the cleric Chandraswami was suspected of involvement, including financing the assassination . Nalini Sriharan, the only surviving member of the five - member squad behind the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi, is serving life imprisonment . Arrested on 14 June 1991, she and 25 others were sentenced to death by a special court on 28 January 1998 . The court confirmed the death sentences of four of the convicts, including Nalini, on 11 May 1999 . Nalini was a close friend of an LTTE operative known as Sriharan alias Murugan, another convict in the case who has been sentenced to death . Nalini later gave birth to a girl, Harithra, in prison . Nalini's death sentence was commuted to life imprisonment in April 2000 . Rajiv's widow, Sonia Gandhi, intervened and asked for clemency for Nalini on the grounds of the latter being a mother . Later, it was reported that Gandhi's 19 - year - old daughter, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, had met Nalini at Vellore Central Prison in March 2008 . Nalini regrets the killing of Gandhi and said the real conspirators have not been caught yet . </P>

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