PUNE:” Let them go ahead and file whatever charges they intend to, they cannot prosecute me again for the same offence for which I have already served a life term.”
This is how Gopal Godse, coconspirator in the Gandhi murder trial, reacted to the Bombay police filing sedition charges against him for his allegedly inflammatory Speeches on his elder brother, Nathuram Godse”s 44th death anniversary Observed in Bombay on Nov.18.
Gopal Godse, author of Gandhi hatya aani me (Gandhi’s assassination and I), is currently in Delhi to compile evidence against some of the major Muslim landmarks such as the Red Fort, the Jama Masjid and the Qutab Minar, which, according to him, were built on existing Hindu structures. Ina telephone conversation from Delhi with a correspondent, Godse welcomed the move to file sedition charges against him and some of his associates. “Let them come before me, | will deal with them with the help of my lawyers. They have in a way only indirectly helped to promote our cause. We could not have carried out our propaganda with the limited resources at our disposal,” he said.
Mrs.Sindhutai Joshi, regarding the charge filed against her husband, Gopal Godse, said: The so Called sedition charge against us of inciting Hindu Muslim hatred is baseless. Wear firmly convinced that what my brother-in-law (Nathuram) did was a historical necessity and we stand by what we did.”
Article extracted from this publication >> December 3, 1993
