the preliminary report of the Jain Commission, set up to investigate the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi at Sriperumbudur on 21 May 1991, was released on 28 August 1997.28 Justice M.C. Jain’s interim report29 suggested that the DMK and its leadership had been involved in encouraging Velupillai Prabhakaran, the leader of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), and his followers.
