Confirmation of LTTE chief's death with CBI, says Chidambaram

New Delhi, Feb 1 (PTI) The Central Bureau of Investigation
(CBI) has received the "documentation" confirming the death of
Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) Chief V Prabhakaran,
prime accused in the assassination case of former Indian Prime
Minister Rajiv Gandhi from the government of Sri Lanka, Home
Minister P Chidambaram said here Monday.
"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 Right To Information (RTI)
reply that it was still awaiting the certificate of
Prabhakaran's death from the authorities in Sri Lanka.
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."
"Immediately after coming to know about the death of
Prabhakaran, the proclaimed offender in the case, CBI has
taken up the matter with authorities concerned in Sri Lanka
through diplomatic channels for supplying authenticated copy
of his death certificate, which is still awaited," it read.
Gandhi was assassinated in Sriperumbudur in Tamil Nadu on
May 21, 1991 during an election rally. PTI ACB
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