Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - A watan Janairun 1948, an kashe Mahatma Gandhi
da wani memba na RSS, Nathuram Godse. Bayan kisan, an kama manyan shugabannin RSS da yawa, kuma an dakatar da RSS a matsayin ƙungiya a ranar 4 ga Fabrairu, 1948. A lokacin shari'ar kotu dangane da kisan kai, Godse ya fara ikirarin cewa ya bar kungiyar a 1946. An kafa Kwamitin Bincike a cikin Shirye-shiryen kisan Gandhi, kuma Ma'aikatar Harkokin Cikin Gida ta Indiya ta wallafa rahotonta a shekara ta 1970. Dangane da haka, Hukumar Justice Kapur ta lura cewa "RSS a matsayin irin wannan ba ta da alhakin kisan Mahatma Gandhi, ma'ana ta haka ne mutum ba zai iya kiran kungiyar a matsayin irin wannan da ke da alhakin wannan mummunan laifi ba, kisan manzon zaman lafiya. Ba a tabbatar da cewa su (masu tuhumar) sun kasance mambobi ne na RSS ba. " Koyaya, Mataimakin Firayim Ministan Indiya da Ministan Cikin Gida, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel ya yi tsokaci cewa "Mutanen RSS sun nuna farin ciki kuma sun rarraba alewa bayan mutuwar Gandhi".