Nathuram Godse, the name strikes anger in a few, grief in a few. He is the killer of Mahatma Gandhi. He is said to have driven a particular car, the 1930 Studebaker, on the day he killed the Mahatma. Co-incidentally it was named "Killer". It is the six-cylinder, 40 bhp Studebaker of 1930, aptly named Killer, in which Nathuram Godse rode to Birla Bhawan, New Delhi, on January 30, 1948 to assassinate Mahatma Gandhi.
It can run on both manual and automatic transmission modes, something which cars of its age did not have," said the present owner of the car, Parvez Jamal Siddiqui. The car passed on to Nathuram Godse and after he went to jail for murdering the Mahatma, it was bought by an Anglo Indian, Saini Calib. The Varanasi-based businessman put the car to auction in 1978, and it was won by Kamaal from Bareilly and eventually landed in the hands of Parvez in 1999.
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It can run on both manual and automatic transmission modes, something which cars of its age did not have," said the present owner of the car, Parvez Jamal Siddiqui. The car passed on to Nathuram Godse and after he went to jail for murdering the Mahatma, it was bought by an Anglo Indian, Saini Calib. The Varanasi-based businessman put the car to auction in 1978, and it was won by Kamaal from Bareilly and eventually landed in the hands of Parvez in 1999.
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