Savarkar was 64 years old, and had been ailing for a year or
more. He was detained on 5 February 1948, and remained in prison for the whole
of the year which the investigations and the trial took. He was adjudged 'not
guilty' on 10 February 1949. The man who had undergone 26 years of imprisonment
and detention under the British for his part in
The strain of the trial, and the year spent in prison while
it lasted, wrecked Savarkar's health and finished him as a force in
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