NEW DELHI: Nathuram Vinayak Godse, 36-year-old assassin of Mr Gandhi was sentenced to death here today [Feb 10] by the Special Court which had been trying him and seven other Hindu extremists for the murder of Mr Gandhi on Jan 30, 1948.

Narayan Dattatraya Apte, a former 35-yearold school teacher, was also sentenced to death for complicity in the murder. Mr Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, 65-year-old exPresident of the Hindu Mahasabba, was the only one of the eight accused found not guilty. He was acquitted. News agencies [Meanwhile, according to a staff correspondent in Karachi,] restoration of normal life ... in ... Jammu and Kashmir was demanded from the UN Commission for India and Pakistan by Agha Shaukat Ali, General Secretary of the All-Jammu and Kashmir Muslim Conference, at a Press conference in Karachi on Thursday [Feb 10].

He said: `We want a fair plebiscite. Our people want to go back to the Valley if normal traffic on the Kohala-Uri-Srinagar road is immediately restored. It would be my constant endeavour to create such conditions as may facilitate the return of our people to the place where the real struggle awaits us all. ...