One of the judges in the three-judge bench of the Punjab High Court, Justice Khosla, did indeed try to stop the recording of the statement citing its irrelevance to facts of the case, but the other two judges seemed mesmerised by the melodrama.4 Douglass, in this connection, makes a pertinent remark: A statement filled with baseless charges against Gandhi and the hate-filled propaganda countering which a secular state had just been founded could very well have been kept out of the court proceedings. No allegation levelled at Gandhi could have legally remitted the punishment. It is surprising to note while going through the records of the court proceedings that an accused of a daylight murder could be permitted to list out reasons for it and justify the killing. Thereafter, when the rest of his co-accused moved an appeal in the Punjab High Court, Godse moved one along with them as well, ostensibly to state that there was no conspiracy in Gandhi’s murder, but in effect to seek an opportunity to read out the statement again. On 8 November 1948, when permitted by the court to argue his case, he read out a ninety-two-page hand-written statement.
#GUN USED TO KILL GANDHI FULL#
He then proceeded to utilise the legal procedure to his full advantage. On the second day of his hearing while asking for extra water, Godse acknowledged that he was surprised by the civility shown to him in detention. Hence the law took its course wherein he was supplied with legal aid at government expense, and most of his demands during his stay in jail were fulfilled. He further states, “There was no legal machinery by which such an offender (Gandhi) could be brought to book and it was therefore that I resorted to the firing of shots at Gandhiji as that was the only thing for me to do.” If the same antiquated sense of justice that Godse believed in was to be applied to him, he would have been killed there and then.įortunately for him, the people who ran the affairs of the country then had far more faith in democratic rights and the rule of law. He accepted in the courtroom: “I took courage in both my hands and I did fire the shots at Gandhiji on 30th January 1948, on the prayer-grounds of Birla House.” This was a straightforward case of cold-blooded murder. Nathuram Godse was caught red-handed in the act of murdering Gandhi with a gun, witnessed by hundreds of people.
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