Mumbai resident approaches SC again seeking reinvestigation in Mahatma Gandhi's assassination

A Mumbai resident, who has been knocking at judiciary's doors with his plea for an inquiry into the alleged "larger conspiracy leading to" the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi, has once again approached the Supreme Court with "fresh" documents and evidence to claim that a

re-investigation was needed to clear the air in the matter.

Dr Pankaj Phadnis has filed a petition asking the apex court to peruse some books and a forensic report of the photographs of wounds on the body of Gandhi to decide the need for fresh probe into his killing.

The Supreme Court had rejected his earlier plea for re-investigation into the assassination in March this year.

In the fresh plea, he has given reference from two book --Who Killed Gandhi by Lourenco de Salvador written in 1963 and India Remembered by Pamella Mountbatten, daughter of then Governor General Lord L. Mountbatten.

He claimed that examination of the two books would lead to conclusion that the person/persons in the highest echelons of power, ...