On January 30, 1948, at exactly 5.17 pm, Nathuram Godse fired three shots at Mahatma Gandhi from his Beretta M1934. The Mahatma died on the spot. During his trial, Godse tried to take sole responsibility for the crime. But his arguments were rejected. A Bench of the Punjab High Court in Shimla in 1949 upheld the convictions and sentences of five people for the larger conspiracy: Godse, his younger brother Gopal, Narayan Apte, Vishnu Karkare, and Madanlal Pahwa. Justice G D Khosla, who was part of the three-judge Bench that heard the appeals of Godse and the others wrote about each convict in his book The Murder of Mahatma (1965). Here are some profiles based on the book and other sources, and their roles in the conspiracy to murder the Father of the Nation. Story continues below this ad 01 Nathuram Godse Nathuram was born as Ramachandra Vinayak in 1910 to a village postmaster near Baramati, Maharashtra. He was his parents’ fourth son. And since all three previous sons died at an early age, Ramchandra …