The Supreme Court has found “no grounds” to recall its judgment rejecting the plea seeking reinvestigation into the alleged “larger conspiracy leading to” the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi. The apex court refused to take into account the plea in the review petition that claimed that “fresh” documents and evidence would clear the air in the matter.
“We have carefully gone through the review petition and the connected papers filed therewith. We do not find any ground, whatsoever, to entertain the same. The review petition is, accordingly dismissed,” a Bench comprising Justices SA Bobde and LN Rao said in a recent order.
Mumbai-based researcher Pankaj Phadnis had filed a petition asking the apex court to peruse some books and a forensic report of the photographs of wounds on the body of Gandhi to decide the need for fresh probe into his killing.
The SC had rejected his earlier plea for re-investigation into the assassination on March 28, 2018. In the fresh plea, he had given reference from two book — “Who Killed Gandhi” by Lourenco de Salvador written in 1963 and “India Remembered” by Pamella Mountbatten, daughter of the then Governor General Lord L Mountbatten.
He had claimed examination of two books will lead to conclusion that the person/persons in the highest echelons of power were “complicit” in the murder of Gandhi.