Consider the following statements regarding the Alipore Bomb Conspiracy Case, 1908:

1. Revolutionaries who threw the bomb were Prafulla Chaki and Aurobindo Ghosh.

2. All the people who were tried in the case were members of Anushilan Samiti in Calcutta.

3. C.R Das defended Aurobindo Ghosh who was acquitted of all the charges due to lack of evidence.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

Solution

● Statement 1 is incorrect: In 1908, Prafulla Chaki and Khudiram Bose threw a bomb at a carriage supposed to be carrying a particularly sadistic white judge, Kingsford, in Muzaffarpur. Kingsford was not in the carriage. Unfortunately, two British ladies, instead, got killed. Prafulla Chaki shot himself dead, while Khudiram Bose was tried and hanged. ● Statement 2 is correct: The whole Anushilan group was arrested, including the Ghosh brothers, Aurobindo and Barindra, who were tried in the Alipore conspiracy case. ● Statement 3 is correct: Chittaranjan Das defended Aurobindo who was acquitted of all charges, due to lack of evidence against him. Of the thirty-seven prisoners on trial, Barindra Ghose, as the head of the Secret society of revolutionaries and Ullaskar Dutt, as the maker of bombs, were given the death penalty (later commuted to transportation for life).