![]() ![]() It is hard to prove whether the Delhi meeting is the “smoking gun” that conclusively links Savarkar to the death squad. These new facts have the authors to ask: Was the Hindu Mahasabha meeting a cover for Savarkar’s gang to finalise the plan to kill Gandhi? ![]() ![]() Weeks before, in July 1947, Apte and Vishnu Karkare had approached Badge to secure arms on behalf of “influential persons”. In the Capital, the trio met Dattatreya Parchure, the Gwalior-based founder of the Hindu Rashtra Sena. ![]() Savarkar, by then ailing, would not venture out of Bombay his trip to Delhi was an exception. Suresh and Kotamraju say that on August 8, 1947, Savarkar, Godse and Apte boarded a plane from Mumbai to attend a Hindu Mahasabha meeting in Delhi. Kapur identified Savarkar as the gang’s leader, evident from his conclusion that all “facts taken together were destructive of any theory other than the conspiracy to murder by Savarkar and his group”. 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. ![]()
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