Narayan Apte

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Group photo of ABHM supporters from the 1930 / 40s. Standing: Shankar Kistaiya, Gopal Godse, Madanlal Pahwa, Digambar Badge, sitting: Narayan Apte, Vinayak Damodar Savarkar , Nathuram Godse , Vishnu Karkare

Narayan Dattatraya Apte ( Hindi मुक्त ज्ञानकोश विकिपीडिया से , * 1911 ; † November 15, 1949 in Ambala , Haryana ) was the alleged mastermind behind the assassination attempt on Mahatma Gandhi .

He graduated from the University of Bombay . He later worked as a teacher in the American Mission School in Ahmadnagar . He became a member of the nationalist Hindu association Akhil Bharatiya Hindu Mahasabha . There he met Nathuram Godse , the later murderer of Gandhi. Apte was also involved in the other attacks on Gandhi, but all of them failed. It is believed that he planned all the assassinations. After Gandhi's murder on January 30, 1948, he was arrested and, like Godse, sentenced to death by hanging . Both were executed on November 15, 1949 in Ambala prison .

Nehru and two of Gandhi's sons had protested against the execution because they saw it as a contradiction to the philosophy of Gandhi, who was an opponent of the death penalty.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Malgonkar, Manohar (2008). The Men Who Killed Gandhi, New Delhi: Roli Books, ISBN 978-81-7436-617-7 , page 62
  2. ^ The Times (London), pp. 3 ff. November 16, 1949.
personal data
SURNAME Apte, Narayan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Apte, Narayan Dattatraya (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Indian assassin, alleged mastermind behind the assassination attempt on Mahatma Gandhi
DATE OF BIRTH 1911
DATE OF DEATH November 15, 1949
Place of death Ambala , Haryana