N D A’s P M In Waiting and senior Journalist L K Advani said that Swatantryaveer Savarkar was not arrested on the charge of Gandhi;s Assassination But Savarkar was detained under the British Black Preventive Detention Act. In The TAILPIECE of His new blog L K Advani has disclosed this fact. Blogger Advani Said “Before reading this book [The Men Who Killed Gandhi] I did not know that when Savarkar was arrested by the police shortly after Gandhiji’s assassination on January 30, 1948, it was an arrest made under the Preventive Detention Act, “one of the most malignant pieces of legislation with which the British had armed themselves when they ruled India.”
The Bombay police first raided Savarkar’s “residence near Shivaji Park, seized all his private papers, consisting of 143 files and as many as 10,000 letters.
Author Of The Book Malgonkar comments : “There was no evidence at all. What was known (from those papers) was the affiliation of the conspirators to the Hindu Mahasabha and their personal veneration for Savarkar.
The author concludes:
He was sixty-four years old, and had been ailing for a year or more. He was detained on 6 February 1948, and remained in prison for the whole of the year which the investigation and the trial took. He was adjudged ‘not guilty’ on 10 February 1949. The man who had undergone twenty-six years of imprisonment or detention under the British for his part in India’s struggle for freedom was thus slung back into jail for another year the moment that freedom came.”