Rajiv's assassin Dhanu was sentenced by SC, notes CBI on its website

NEW DELHI: In a glaring blooper, CBI has noted on its official website that suicide bomber Dhanu, who assassinated former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi in Sriperumbudur in 1991, was successfully put to trial by the agency and later sentenced to death by the apex court.

This is what archives posted on the website of the agency make viewers to believe 20 years after Dhanu blew herself up when she killed the Congress leader. The Rajiv Gandhi assasination is the only major case which found place on the home page of the website.

According to the case details posted on the website, Dhanu, along with three others, was sentenced to death by the Supreme Court.

"The Designated TADA Court in Chennai, after a meticulous trial, gave death sentences to all the 26 accused. However, on an appeal to the Supreme Courts, only four (Dhanu and three others) of them were sentenced to death. Others were given various jail terms," the agency said.

Thenmozhi Rajratnam alias Dhanu was the suicide bomber of Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) who assasinated Rajiv Gandhi on May 21, 1991 in Sriperumbudur, close to Chennai.

She detonated the explosives tied to her waist while bending to touch his feet.