I am a mechanical engineer from Indore and I have
worked in large multinationals. In 1996, I happened to
rent a flat where Veer Savarkar once stayed. When I
was in class eleven, [I had read] Freedom At Midnight.
In that book Savarkar Sadan is described as a place
of malignant radiations. After I started staying there
it triggered an interest in me—is this the place where
the murder of the century was planned?
So till 1996 there was no interest in history as such.
I was a corporate professional, married with two
daughters, and I was researching in my spare time. I
ended up writing a book and fi ling a writ petition in- This was based on my book, Freedom Strugg-
le—The Unfi nished Story. The four prayers in my writ
petition were:
- We became independent on January 26, 1950 and
not on August 15, 1947. - We were a sovereign nation in 1857 and Bahadurshah
Zafar was the nation’s sovereign. - The freedom struggle was a plural effort, so currency
notes should depict all leaders whose portraits adorn
the walls of Parliament. - Primary education was not a fundamental right in
2004. I pleaded for compulsory and free primary
education.
Chief Justice Dalveer
Bhandari and Justice
D.Y. Chandrachud of the
Bombay High Court asked
the Union government to
give me a reasoned order. I
still haven’t got it.
In 2007, I published a
book, War For Truth, which
was released by the eminent
jurist Fali Nariman. In 2008,
I formed my own company
in IT-enabled education. I
also did a PhD.
In 2012, I got some data
from British archives indi-
cating that the British could
be involved in [Mahatma
Gandhi’s murder] because
that was a specific allegation
made by ambassadors of East
Germany, Poland, Hungary
and Czechoslovakia to
Vijayalakshmi Pandit in a
formal condolence meet-
ing when she was Indian
ambassador to the USSR.
Each ambassador told her
that the dastardly murder
was planned by the British.
Do you recall their names?
The names are not there. This was a report
sent by the British embassy in Moscow to the
Foreign Office, London. This telegram is dated
February 19, 1948.
Do you have this telegram?
I have enclosed it [with the petition]. Then I
came across a secret and sinister agency of the
British Crown called Force 136. I also came
across a telegram which says that Force 136 had
authorisation to kill Netaji Bose.
I had also filed an RTI application in 2004.
I got a reply from the Union home ministry, in
2006, that “it appears that the British Crown
continued to reign over India till 1950”. All of
us believe that we consigned the British Crown
to the dustbin on August 15, 1947. I suspect
that could also be the reason why the Supreme
Court of India has never celebrated August 15 as
Independence Day.
The Bombay High Court rejected your petition
to re-investigate Gandhi’s murder.Four
ambassadors
[of the Soviet
bloc] told
Vijayalakshmi
Pandit in
Moscow that
the murder
was planned
by the British.
VISHNU V. NAIR(^34) THE WEEK NOVEMBER 12, 2017
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