Nathuram Godse and
eight of his alleged accomplice, namely
Narayan Apte,
Vishnu Ramkrishna Karkare, Digambar Badge, Shankar Kistaiya, Veer
Savarkar, Gopal Godse, and Dattatraya Sadashiv Parachure were arrested
by the investigating agency. Trial was conducted in a specially constituted Court at the Red
Fort, Delhi, which ultimately convicted eight out of the total noine accused
persons. Nathuram Godse and Narayan Apte
were sentenced to death and six others were sentenced to life imprisonment,
while Veer Savarkar was acquitted due to want of evidence. The trial began on 27th May 1948 and ran
for eight months before the Ld. Trial Judge Atma Charan passed his final order
on 10 February 1949.
All the convicted persons except
Nathuram Godse, appealed to the High Court against their conviction and
sentence. Nathuram did not challenge the ‘conviction’ part of the trial court
judgement but challenged the ‘conspiracy’ findings.
(Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Mahatma_Gandhi).
Be that as it may, all these are on
record which are in public domain and there cannot be and should not be any controversy
and confusion on this.
Even after this Justice Jivanlal Kapur
Commission of Enquiry - 1966-1969 was constituted to enquire into the conspiracy
and other aspects of the case. Several other petitioner were also filed before
the Hon’ble Bombay High Court and the Hon’ble
Supreme Court praying for reopening of the investigation in the case which all
were rejected by the Hon’ble Courts.
However, the political ideology of
Nathuram Godse has been a point of debate since then and while some want to portray
him as a ‘hero’ some others just as an ‘assassin’.
All of us, who are citizens of India,
firstly, have to decide, whether we trust the very democratic structure of our
republic. If not, then its an altogether different ‘ism’ which might ask for a
revolution to change the very basic structure of the Indian Constitution and
its democratic framework.
But, if ‘yes’, then you have to have faith on judiciary and the judicial
process that ensure verification and re-verification of a trial and appreciated
evidences by the court of law at different trial and appeal stages to come to a
final conclusion. It does not matter at all whether anybody or any ‘ism’ like
it or not. But, it is legally correct under Indian legal system.
Remember, the Sri Lankan LTTE (Liberation
Tigers of Tamil Eelam) had their own agenda and ideology to assassinate Rajiv
Gandhi and so had the Indira Gandhi assassins. Are we going to wreck up those
issues for debate over and again, when both have been set at rest by Indian
Judiciary?
When the well established and proven legal system of India has found the accused of the aforesaid cases as 'guilty' of the offences they were charged with, even after giving complete and full opportunity to the defense to establish the case from their side, there remains no logic as to why at all there involvement and/or motive for the offence should at all be discussed.
Like the topic of ‘disappearance of
Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose’ the topic
of ‘assassination of Gandhi’ may trend in the social media for several ‘motives’, ‘interests’ and/or agenda -
political or economic. Sometimes the print and visual media may also raise
these issues to increase their TRP, but a law abiding and democracy loving
citizen of India should accept the Law Court verdicts and the rationale behind it.
JAI HIND, VANDE MATARAM!!!
================================
Photo- https://pixabay.com/photos/pacifist-mahatma-gandhi-71445/
Post a Comment
If you have any doubt, pl. let me know