NEW DELHI, Jan. 31, 1948 (UP) - Police investigating the assassination of Mohandas Gandhi today arrested 15 persons in Bombay and charged that the murder was part of a conspiracy which has "spread its tentacles around New Delhi."
The 15 were charged as being in the conspiracy with Narayan Vinayak Gadse, extremist Hindu editor from Poona, who shot Gandhi.
Gadse was quoted today as admitting he and five other conspirators had plotted to kill Gandhi and had been responsible for the unsuccessful bombing of Birla House Jan. 20.
When the bomb plot failed the conspirators, according to Gadse, determined to make individual attempts at assassination.
Police believed that the plot had originated with the secret militant Hindu organization. Rashtriya Sewak Sangha (Political Servants of the Country).
This organization advocates a blood purge or mass conversion of all Moslems and a return to the strictest ancient beliefs and practices of Hinduism.
