What happened to the person who assassinated..?

Question: What happened to the person who assassinated!.!.!?

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi!?!?Www@QuestionHome@Com

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He and his accomplice was captured and executedWww@QuestionHome@Com

The assassin, Nathuram Godse, was a Hindu radical with links to the extremist Hindu Mahasabha, who held Gandhi responsible for weakening India by insisting upon a payment to Pakistan!. Godse and his co-conspirator Narayan Apte were later tried and convicted; they were executed on 15 November 1949!.

Godse assassinated Gandhi on January 30, 1948, approaching him during the evening prayer, bowing, and shooting him three times at close range with a Beretta semi-automatic pistol!. Immediately after this, he surrendered himself to police, rather than running away!. He said, "No one should think that Gandhi was killed by a madman"!.

Following his assassination of Gandhi, he was put on trial beginning May 27, 1948!. During the trial, he did not defend any charge and openly admitted that he killed Gandhi!. On November 8, 1949 Godse was sentenced to death for the killing!. Godse's legal team was savaged by critics for not introducing considerable evidence that their client was mentally unballanced and/or manipulated by others!.

Among those calling for commutation of the death sentence for both defendants were Nehru and Gandhi's two sons who felt that the two men on trial were pawns of RSS higher-ups and, in any case, executing their fathers's killers would dishonor his memory and legacy which included a staunch opposition to the death penalty!.

Godse was hanged at Ambala Jail on November 15, 1949, along with Narayan Apte, the other conspirator!. Savarkar was also charged with conspiracy in the assassination of Gandhi, but was acquitted and subsequently released!. Godse stipulated that his ashes were not to be deposited in a body of water according to Hindu dictates, but rather were to be held in storage until they could be deposited in The Sindhu after Pakistan had been reunited with India!.

For years, his brother kept Godse's ashes over his fireplace and held an annual salute to "the hero martyrs" on the anniversary of the assassination!.Www@QuestionHome@Com