: Gandhi assassination: Why Nathuram Godse was allowed to read his hate-filled accusations in court #IndiaNEWS Nathuram Godse was caught red-handed in the act of murdering Gandhi with a gun, witnessed

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Gandhi assassination: Why Nathuram Godse was allowed to read his hate-filled accusations in court #IndiaNEWS
Nathuram Godse was caught red-handed in the act of murdering Gandhi with a gun, witnessed by hundreds of people. This was a straightforward case of cold-blooded murder. 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.� 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. Fortunately for him, the people who ran the affairs of the country then had far more faith in democratic rights and the rule of law. 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. 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...Read more

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