Jeganathan also known as Jegan was one of the members of former Tamil militant organization TELO

Tamil Eelam Liberation Organization

The Tamil Eelam Liberation Organization is an Eelam Tamil organisation campaigning for the establishment of an independent Tamil Eelam in the northeast of Sri Lanka. The TELO was originally created as a militant group, and functioned as such until 1986, when most of its membership was killed in a...

 from Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka is a country off the southern coast of the Indian subcontinent. Known until 1972 as Ceylon , Sri Lanka is an island surrounded by the Indian Ocean, the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait, and lies in the vicinity of India and the...

. He was arrested and sentenced to death and was killed in the 1983 Welikada prison massacre

Welikada prison massacre

The Welikada Prison Massacre took place during the 1983 Black July pogrom against Sri Lankan Tamil minority in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Fifty-three prisoners were killed inside a high-security prison. No one has been convicted of crimes relating to these incidents.- Crime scene :The prison is shaped as...

, along with the TELO leaders Nadarajah Thangathurai

Nadarajah Thangathurai

Nadarajah Thangathurai , was one of the leaders of former Tamil militant organization TELO from Sri Lanka. He was inspired by Marxism. He was arrested and sentenced to life imprisonment and was killed in 1983 Welikada prison massacre along with the other TELO leader Selvarajah Yogachandran.-See...

 & Selvarajah Yogachandran

Selvarajah Yogachandran

Selvarajah Yogachandran , also known as Kuttimani was one of the leaders of former Tamil militant organization TELO from Sri Lanka. He started his career as a smuggler...

. At court he claimed "I am innocent. The Army and the C.I.D. Police tortured me and obtained my signatures on some documents and produced the documents in this court falsely as my statement. I have been convicted on this false evidence. I can be hanged....".He was born on 28.October 1956 in Thondaimanaru.