"Larger conspiracy" behind the Mahatma Gandhi's assassination?

New Delhi: The mystery of the assassination of the great Mahatma Gandhi has become more mysterious as now the new documents could establish that there was a larger conspiracy behind the murder of Mahatma Gandhi. Pankaj Phadnis, the activist of Abhinav Bharat organisation, on Monday told the Supreme Court that he has accessed documents that show a "larger conspiracy" behind the murder. Phadnis is fighting to reopen of a probe into the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi.

Phadnis who is the trustee of Abhinav Bharat told the court that he has sought opinion from a senior attorney in New York, who has 40 years of experience, and as per him forensic technologies were available to examine old documents like a photograph of Gandhi, published in a newspaper on January 31, 1948, which shows four wounds on his body.

Phadnis told the bench of Justice SA Bobde and Justice L Nageswara Rao that he has obtained documents, which the Indian government had banned here, from the Library of Congress in New York and sought permission to file them. He told the court that the documents show larger conspiracy behind the murder of Mahatma Gandhi. The Government of India had banned these documents in India. "I got it from Library of Congress, New York, and it's in a sealed cover," he said.

The court was hearing the plea which seeks to reopen of the investigation on several grounds, claiming it was one of the biggest cover-ups in history. The court had earlier asked Phadnis to satisfy it on the aspects of delay and his locus to raise this issue. The bench had made it clear that it would go only by law and not the stature of the person involved in the case.

PIL filed by Phadnis alleged that Gandhi had received four bullet wounds on his person on January 30, 1948, when he was shot dead. In this regard, the petitioner has produced several media clippings to show that Gandhi had sustained four bullet injuries.