Mahatma Gandhi Murder Case: Trial Court Judgment

<p>Mahathma Gandhi was assassinated on 30th January 1948. Nathuram Vinayak Godse and 11 others were prosecuted. N.V. Godse and N.D. Apte were hanged. V.R. Karkare Madanlal K Pahwa and Gopal V Godse were given Life Imprisonment (Transportation for Life). V.D. Savarkar was acquitted at the Trial Court itself. Shankar Kistaaya and Dattatraya S. Parchure were given life-imprisonment at the Trial but acquitted in the appeal. One of the accused Digambar R Badge became the Approver and was tendered a General Pardon. Gangadhar S Dandwate Gangadhar Jadhav and Suryadeo Sharma (all the three from Gwalior) declared absconding accused and were not traceable for decades. The intriguing point in this bizarre assassination is that the accused were neither laymen nor vagabonds except Shankar Kistayya. Among them there was a Lawyer a Doctor a Sub-Inspector a Mathematics Professor a journalist an hotelier a Government Servant in Ordnance Factory and of course there was a black-marketeer in arms and ammunitions. A blind patriotic fanaticism was a common integrating factor among the accused. The Trial Court Judgement has clearly sent a stern signal to the present generation that Law will not leave the perpetrators of crime whatever be their academic qualification or their position in the society. This book is a sincere attempt to photograph the events connected to Mahathma Gandhis assassination through the Trial Court Judgement with ample photographs and umpteen illustrations.</p>