Savarkar's Grandnephew: 10 Mercy Petitions to British, Contradicts 'Veer' Reputation

Satyaki Savarkar testified in a Pune defamation case against Rahul Gandhi that his grandnephew Vinayak Damodar Savarkar filed ten mercy petitions seeking sentence reduction from British authorities. He acknowledged other revolutionaries like Bhagat Singh did not file such petitions but denied the petitions expressed loyalty to the British government. Satyaki maintained filing clemency petitions was a standard legal procedure available to all prisoners.