Sixty years after he was shot dead by a Hindu fanatic, some recently found ashes of India's freedom icon Mahatma Gandhi will be scattered across the Arabian Sea, the family said Tuesday.
An urn containing the ashes - which were earlier planned to be displayed at a Gandhi museum in India's financial hub Mumbai - will be opened and the ashes scattered on Wednesday, the 60th anniversary of his death, relatives said.
Last year the urn was sent to the city's Mani Bhavan museum by an Indian businessman whose father, a close family friend, had preserved the ashes, said Tushar Gandhi, great grandson of the freedom champion.
"The family discussed the issue internally and we felt it was not right to put up his ashes on public display and requested the museum to hand over the urn to us," the great grandson told AFP.
The ashes will be scattered over the sea on Wednesday morning by the great granddaughter of Mahatma Gandhi, Nilamben Parikh. Gandhi was shot death by a Hindu hard-liner on January 30, 1948 at a prayer meet in New Delhi. Following his cremation according to Hindu rites the ashes packed in several containers were sent to towns and villages across India for memorial services.
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