INDIA – Thieves stole some of Mahatma Gandhi’s remains on what would have been his 150th birthday, police said.
The ashes were taken from a memorial in central India, where it was kept since 1948 – the year a Hindu extremist assassinated Gandhi.
The thieves scrawled “traitor” in green paint across photographs of the independence leader.
Some Hindu hardliners view Gandhi as a “traitor” for his advocacy of Hindu-Muslim unity despite him being a devout Hindu himself.
Gandhi led a non-violent resistance movement against British colonial rule in India, inspiring people across the world. Most Indians still revere him as the “father of the nation.”
Police in Rewa, Madhya Pradesh state were investigating the incident.(BBC)
