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PIL seeks fresh probe into Mahatma's killing

Petitioner says inquiry failed to reveal plot behind murder
Last Updated 27 May 2016, 19:13 IST
Close to seven decades after Mahatma Gandhi, the Father of the Nation, was assassinated, a PIL has been filed in the Bombay High Court, seeking a fresh probe by a Commission of Inquiry to ascertain the exact conspiracy behind the murder.

The PIL has been filed by Dr Pankaj Phadnis, author, researcher and trustee of Abhinav Bharat, Mumbai. The PIL is slated to come up for hearing on June 6 before a bench headed by Chief Justice D H Waghela.

The petition claims that the J L Kapur Commission of Inquiry which had investigated Gandhi’s murder has done an incomplete inquiry and has failed to unearth the entire conspiracy behind killing Gandhi on January 30, 1948.

In his petition, Dr Phadnis has mentioned that the prosecution’s case in Gandhi murder trial was that he was shot by the assassin with a revolver which had seven bullets chamber and that Gandhi had received three bullet injuries while the rest four bullets were recovered by the police from the revolver. Citing several media reports after Gandhiji’s death, the petitioner claims that Gandhi had sustained four bullet injuries.

“The probe should also attempt to find out if any person in the world other than those accused in the Gandhi murder, had any information regarding his murder or the conspiracy, prior to the incident,” the petitioner said.

The commission should also find out whether the motive of the murder was to cause enmity between the people of India and Pakistan by sabotaging the Gandhi-Jinnah reconciliation project of “reviving people-to-people contact”. The PIL claimed that Gandhi was slated to visit Pakistan to revive people-to-people contact. However, he was shot dead prior to his departure for the neighbouring country.

The petitioner also said  adverse observations made by the Kapur Commission against Veer Savarkar should be deleted because he was acquitted in the murder case.
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(Published 27 May 2016, 19:13 IST)

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