TERRORIST GANG
HEAVY SENTENCES INFLICTED
SERIES OF CRIMES IN INDIA!
(United Press Association—By Electric
Telegraph—Copyright).
(Received this day at 10-45 a.m.) CALCUTTA, December 13
A special tribunal .at Lahore, after a trial lasting for three years, inflicted heavy sentences on a gang of terrorists for a series of crimes in the Punjab and elsewhere.
Two were sentenced to death, three to life transportation, eleven to hard labour ranging from two to seven years’, and five were acquitted. The accused formed an organisation an 1926, called the Hindustan Republican Army, aiming) to secure freedom for India, for which bombs and ammunition were secured.
The first crime was an attempt to wreck the Viceroy, Lord Irwin’s special train in December, 1929, when bombs were ' laid on the railway line near’ Delhi, but were discovered in time to prevent disaster.
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Hokitika Guardian, 14 December 1933, Page 5
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