NO FURTHER PROBE, GODSE KILLED GANDHI

New Delhi, Jan. 8: The Supreme Court was on Monday told there was no need to reinvestigate Mahatma Gandhi’s assassination as the conspiracy behind the murder and identity of assailant Nathuram Vinayak Godse who had fired the bullets have already been duly established.

No further probe is needed into the assassination of the ‘Father of Nation’, Mahatma Gandhi, amicus curiae told the Supreme Court on Monday.

In its report, submitted to the court, senior counsel Amarendra Saran said the bullets which pierced Mahatma Gandhi’s body, the pistol from which it was fired, the assailant who fired the said bullets, the conspiracy which led to the assassination and the ideology which led to the said assassination, have all been duly identified.

A bench of Justices S.A. Bobde and L. Nageswara Rao had appointed Mr Saran to assist the court to decide a petition by Dr Pankaj Kumarchandra Phadnis seeking further probe the assassination of the Mahatma.

The report said no substantive material has come to light to throw doubt on any of the above, requiring either a reinvestigation of the Mahatma Gandhi murder case or, to constitute a fresh fact finding commission with respect to the same. No suggestion has been put by any of the advocates that there was a larger conspiracy, the court was told.