Documents from US Show Larger Conspiracy Behind Mahatma Gandhi's Assassination: SC

New Delhi: The Supreme Court, which is seized of a petition seeking re-investigation into the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi, was on Monday told that there were some crucial documents procured from the USA's Library of Congress which showed evidence of a "larger conspiracy" behind the killing of the Father of the Nation.

A bench comprising Justices S A Bobde and L Nageswara Rao said such material has to be brought before it along with an application.

Mumbai-based Dr Pankaj Phadnis, a trustee of charitable trust Abhinav Bharat who has filed a petition in this regard, told the bench that the



documents, which he had received from the USA, contained material which are "banned" by the government here. He said he has also got a letter from a US-based attorney who has said that forensic evidence could be obtained in the case.

"We will see this. It seems attractive but we will see whether it can be done," the bench told him after he referred to the letter by an attorney regarding admissibility of evidence in courts in New York.

The bench said that now with technology, it was possible to get the forensic evidence but it would see whether the case was required to be re-investigated.