![]() ![]() ![]() The motivation of the gang of nine, including Badge, to kill Gandhi was said to have been spawned by their hostility to Gandhi’s insistence that the Indian government should repatriate R55 crore to Pakistan as part of the agreement on the division of assets and liabilities between the two countries. ![]() We also knew that Digambar Badge, who turned approver in the assassination case, heard Savarkar tell the two, “Be successful and return.” We knew that both Godse and co-conspirator Narayan Apte met Savarkar in Bombay on January 14 and January 17, 1948. ![]() The JL Kapur Commission, appointed in March 1965, traced the conspiracy to a few weeks before Nathuram Godse pumped bullets into Gandhi on January 30, 1948. This book’s authors, Appu Esthose Suresh and Priyanka Kotamraju, do so by accessing classified intelligence documents not seen till date. The Murderer, The Monarch and The Fakir: A New Investigation of Mahatma Gandhi’s Assassination pushes the timeline of the conspiracy to kill the Father of the Nation beyond the usually accepted period. ![]()
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