Amicus curiae Sharan refutes claim of unknown person killing Mahatma Gandhi

Sharan was instructed by the apex court to go through all documents pertaining to the assassination to check if the alleged claim of an unknown person firing the fourth bullet that killed Gandhi had any basis.

The SC order was based on a plea by a 'self-confessed' Veer Savarkar devotee and founder of 'Abhinav Bharat' Pankaj Phadnis, who insisted that four shots were fired at Mahatma Gandhi and it was the fourth bullet fired by a mysterious person that took his life.

Times of India quoted Sharan as saying, "The bullets which pierced Mahatma Gandhi's body, the pistol from which it was fired, the assailant who fired the said bullets, the conspiracy which led to the assassination and the ideology which led to the said assassination have all been duly identified. No substantive material has come to light to throw any doubt on any of the above requiring either a re-investigation of the Mahatma Gandhi murder case or, to constitute a fresh fact finding commission with respect to the same."

Sharan and his assitants, advocates Sanchit Guru and Samarth Khanna, examined nearly 4,000 pages of trial court records and the Jeevan Lal Kapur Inquiry Commission report, to arrive at their conclusion.

The Father of the Nation was assassinated on January 30, 1948, in the compound of Birla House, a large mansion in central New Delhi.