In the 150th year of the First War of Independence, the elusive personal file of legendary revolutionary Rash Behari Bose, who took leave from the Forest Research Institute (FRI), where he worked to carry out a bomb attack on Viceroy Lord Harding in 1912, has finally been found.
After one year of frantic search, mandarins at the FRI were able to locate the file in which it became clear that Bose had taken one month long leave when the attack took place for which four of his accomplices were hanged.
The file (no 73) also stated that Bose was soon terminated from services after it was found that it was he who masterminded the whole plot of Chandni Chowk in Delhi where the bomb was thrown on the procession of Harding on December 23, 1912.
As the blast ripped through the procession, Harding escaped with minor injuries. But the attack was able to shake the foundation of the British Empire in India.
“It is very heartening to note that the personal file of Rash Behari Bose has been found in our esteemed institution,” said Dr Paramjit Singh, Public Relations Officer in FRI. In the ensuing man-hunt Master Amir Chand, Avadh Behari and Bal Mukund were arrested and hanged in Delhi jail. where now stands the Azad Medical College.
The event had a tremendous effect on the subsequent revolutionary activities. Bose later went to Japan from where he founded the Indian National Army(INA) which  operated against Britain. He, later, eventually handed the INA to Subhas Chandra Bose.