Nalini Sriharan, serving life sentence in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, was today granted one-day parole by the Madras High Court. She had filed a petition seeking three days leave from today for attending the obsequies of her father, who passed away last month. The 16th day obsequies of her father is scheduled to be held at Kottur tomorrow. <br/><br/>Justice R Mala, before whom the plea came up, granted her 24-hour parole starting from today at 4 PM to 4 PM tomorrow. The judge said she should be under police escort and be brought back to prison by 4 PM tomorrow.<br/><br/>In her petition, Nalini submitted that she had made a representation for three days leave on March 2 to the Superintendent of Special Prison for Women in Vellore. However the official had not responded. Nalini was sentenced to death by the trial court in the case on January 28, 1998. Her sentence was commuted to life term by the Tamil Nadu Governor on April 24, 2000.