A special court in New Delhi sentenced Nathuram Vinayak Godse to death for the murder of Mahatma Gandhi in 1948. The court also sentenced co-conspirator Narayan Dattatraya Apte to death, while the leader of Hindu extremist group Hindu Mahasabha, Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, was acquitted. Meanwhile, in Karachi, Agha Shaukat Ali of the All-Jammu and Kashmir Muslim Conference demanded a fair plebiscite and the restoration of normal life in the disputed region of Jammu and Kashmir.