The Supreme Court on Monday (February 19) dealing with the plea seeking constitution of a new commission of inquiry to uncover the larger conspiracy behind the murder of Mahatma Gandhi directed the petitioner to file an affidavit stating that how those documents are important after the petitioner submitted to the apex court that he had caught hold the documents containing crucial facts about the murder of Mahatma from New York but the Government of India seized it.

The SC bench of Justices S A Bobde and L Nageswara Rao was hearing a plea filed by Dr Pankaj Phadnis, a researcher and a trustee of an NGO Abhinav Bharat, Mumbai, has claimed that the Justice JL Kapur commission of inquiry set up in 1966 had not been able to unearth the entire conspiracy that culminated in the killing of the Father of the Nation.

The bench further directed the petitioner that the merits of the case will be decided on the basis of the affidavit filed.

The case was listed for next hearing to March 6, 2018.

—India Legal Bureau