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Tushar Gandhi Moves Supreme Court Opposing Reopening Of Mahatma Gandhi’s Assassination Case
Tushar Gandhi, the great-grandson of Mahatma Gandhi
Tushar Gandhi, the great-grandson of Mahatma Gandhi, today moved the Supreme Court opposing a plea seeking reopening of the 70-year-old assassination case of the Mahatma.
A bench of Justices S A Bobde and M M Shantanagoudar questioned the locus of Tushar Gandhi in the case. Senior advocate Indira Jaising, appearing for Gandhi, said she will explain the locus if the court moves ahead with issuing of notice.
The bench said there were several ifs and buts in the case and will like to wait for the amicus curiae (friend of the court) Amrender Sharan's report.
Sharan sought four weeks time to file the report, saying he was yet to receive relevant documents from the National Archives.
Jaising said that she is opposing the reopening of the 70-year-old assassination case of Mahatma and also questioned the locus of the petitioner, Mumbai-based Pankaj Phadnis, a researcher and a trustee of Abhinav Bharat.
The bench listed the matter after four weeks.
The apex court had on 6 October appointed senior advocate Sharan as amicus curiae to assist it in the matter.
The bench had raised a volley of questions including how evidence could be collected now to order further investigation into the case which had led to the conviction and execution of Nathuram Vinayak Godse and Narayan Apte on 15 November 1949. (PTI)
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