People for many decades believed that Father of The Nation Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated by Nathuram Godse who opposed his appeasement of muslims. Even Congress party all these years attacked RSS of murdering Mahatma Gandhi and Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi is also fighting a defamation suit filed by RSS against his remarks.
In the meantime a PIL has been filed before the Supreme Court seeking answers to three questions. The following are the questions in the PIL before the Supreme Court.
Was there a second assassin of Mahatma Gandhi? Though the police went by the theory that three bullets were fired upon him, was there a fourth bullet also which was fired by someone apart from Nathuram Godse?
PIL sought the need to uncover the larger conspiracy in the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi by constituting a new commission of inquiry. The petition by Dr Pankaj Phadnis, a researcher and a trustee of Abhinav Bharat, Mumbai,stated that it was one of the biggest cover-up in history and also whether there was any basis to blame Vinayak Damodar Savarkar for his death?
He in his PIL claimeed that the Justice J L Kapur Commission of Inquiry set up in 1966 had not been able to unearth the entire conspiracy that culminated in the killing of the Father of the Nation.
He also questioned the three bullet theory on which courts relied to convict Nathuram Godse and Narayan Apte who were hangeed to death on 15 November 1949 while Savarkar was given the benefit of doubt due to lack of evidence.
