Evidently, it seemed like a colossal exercise in futility as the Commission did not make any pointed references or castigate the people who had been named as part of the enquiry in the terms of reference. What it however ended up doing was to drag the name of the deceased Savarkar yet again into the realm of culpability. All through Justice Kapur’s report, he uses the term ‘Savarkarites’ to mean a caucus within the Hindu Mahasabha that was possibly inspired by Savarkar’s ideology and believed in a militant approach, as being the prime culprits in the murder.
