India seeks Prabhakaran's death certificate

21 May 2009, 1351 hrs IST

India on Thursday (May 21) sought for Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) slain supremo Prabhakaran's death certificate. National Security Advisor (NSA) MK Narayanan, who is in Sri Lankan to meet President Mahinda Rajapaksa, made it clear to the SL government that India needs the certificate to close former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi's assassination case.  Earlier, PM Manmohan Singh sent special envoys -- NSA MK Narayanan and Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon, to meet Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa to also seek a political solution to the Tamil question while offering help in the reconstruction effort following elimination of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Elam (LTTE).  Narayanan and Menon, who arrived in Colombo on Wednesday (May 20), met Rajapaksa at a close door breakfast meeting at his Temple Trees residence.