The state police had claimed then that Dhanu had suddenly made her way near Rajiv Gandhi before detonating the bomb and that she was not at all present in the sterile zone prior to that, Raghothaman said.
Holding that many versions had floated around the mastermind behind the incident, Raghothaman said he decided to document the meticulous investigation that led the SIT to LTTE chief V Prabhakaran and many other members of the outlawed group for the crime.
He said he penned the book in Tamil in 2009 only because the “accused had been killed,” in armed conflict with Sri Lankan forces.
The English version again details the incidents that led to the murder of Gandhi and how CBI zeroed in on Prabhakaran with vital clues.
