<p>After a gap of over 15 years, iconic Bhagat Singh threw two bombs on the floor of the New Delhi Central assembly chamber and fired two shots from an automatic revolver.<br />Several such accounts of the revolutionaries who created panic in the British are revealed through the police first information reports, news stories and writings of historians, Gazetteer of India. <br /><br />The old Delhi in the pre-Independence India had been the epicentre of the revolutionary activities.<br /><br />At 11.45 am on December 23, 1912, Ras Behari Bose threw bomb at Viceroy Lord Hardinge near Red Fort area, Old Delhi Railway station. <br /><br />The Viceroy, seated on an elephant, was wounded while lady Hardinge escaped unhurt. One of the attendants on howdah (a carriage on the back of an elephant) was killed instantly.<br /><br />The records maintain “fortunately the majestic elephant Moti did not move an inch further from the place in obedience to the sign order of the mahaut”.<br /><br />The bomb was believed to have been thrown from the building of the Punjab National Bank branch in Katra Dhulia, opposite Moti Bazar in Chandni Chowk. Basant Biswas, who was disguised in female attire, hid the bomb and accompanied Ras Behari Bose as his wife to the bank building, it is said.<br /><br />In March 1929, Bhagat Singh with B K Dutt hurled two bombs in the New Delhi Central assembly. After the arrest, Singh was first kept in the Kotwali Chandni Chowk, and on April 16, he was shifted to the Civil Lines police station near old secretariat. <br />From assembly house, Dutt was taken to the Raisina (Road) lock-up, near the present Parliament Street police station.<br /><br />Singh was remanded in police custody for 40 days in Civil Lines, once called ‘Gora Hawalatt’. One of the arrested co-conspirators, Shiv Sharma, disclosed that Singh and Dutt had been living in the Sita Ram Bazar house and was later shifted to another house on Nai Sarak (then known as Egerton Road).<br /><br />From the Civil Lines police station, Singh and Dutt were removed to Delhi jail. The two were brought for court hearing to the magistrate’s residence on the Rajpur Road near Delhi University.<br /><br />Bomb factory<br /><br />The revolutionary activities in Delhi did not stop after the arrests of Singh and Dutt. Soon a bomb factory was opened in Delhi. A plan was hatched to attack Viceroy’s train arriving to Delhi from Bombay on October 27, 1929, on Delhi-Mathura Road.<br /><br />Revolutionary writer Yashpal and Bhagwati Charan were living in the ‘Naya Bazar’ in Delhi. The more famous Chandrashekhar Azad also stayed in ‘Naya Bazar’.<br /><br />On December 23, 1929, a bomb exploded on railway track opposite Purana Qila. This was known as Delhi conspiracy case.<br /><br />In the first week of July, 1930, an armed robbery was committed in Gadodia stores in Delhi, in which the victim was robbed of Rs 14,000. “It is said that when the owner of the store learnt that a hold-up was done by revolutionaries, he did not pursue the matter.<br /></p>
<p>After a gap of over 15 years, iconic Bhagat Singh threw two bombs on the floor of the New Delhi Central assembly chamber and fired two shots from an automatic revolver.<br />Several such accounts of the revolutionaries who created panic in the British are revealed through the police first information reports, news stories and writings of historians, Gazetteer of India. <br /><br />The old Delhi in the pre-Independence India had been the epicentre of the revolutionary activities.<br /><br />At 11.45 am on December 23, 1912, Ras Behari Bose threw bomb at Viceroy Lord Hardinge near Red Fort area, Old Delhi Railway station. <br /><br />The Viceroy, seated on an elephant, was wounded while lady Hardinge escaped unhurt. One of the attendants on howdah (a carriage on the back of an elephant) was killed instantly.<br /><br />The records maintain “fortunately the majestic elephant Moti did not move an inch further from the place in obedience to the sign order of the mahaut”.<br /><br />The bomb was believed to have been thrown from the building of the Punjab National Bank branch in Katra Dhulia, opposite Moti Bazar in Chandni Chowk. Basant Biswas, who was disguised in female attire, hid the bomb and accompanied Ras Behari Bose as his wife to the bank building, it is said.<br /><br />In March 1929, Bhagat Singh with B K Dutt hurled two bombs in the New Delhi Central assembly. After the arrest, Singh was first kept in the Kotwali Chandni Chowk, and on April 16, he was shifted to the Civil Lines police station near old secretariat. <br />From assembly house, Dutt was taken to the Raisina (Road) lock-up, near the present Parliament Street police station.<br /><br />Singh was remanded in police custody for 40 days in Civil Lines, once called ‘Gora Hawalatt’. One of the arrested co-conspirators, Shiv Sharma, disclosed that Singh and Dutt had been living in the Sita Ram Bazar house and was later shifted to another house on Nai Sarak (then known as Egerton Road).<br /><br />From the Civil Lines police station, Singh and Dutt were removed to Delhi jail. The two were brought for court hearing to the magistrate’s residence on the Rajpur Road near Delhi University.<br /><br />Bomb factory<br /><br />The revolutionary activities in Delhi did not stop after the arrests of Singh and Dutt. Soon a bomb factory was opened in Delhi. A plan was hatched to attack Viceroy’s train arriving to Delhi from Bombay on October 27, 1929, on Delhi-Mathura Road.<br /><br />Revolutionary writer Yashpal and Bhagwati Charan were living in the ‘Naya Bazar’ in Delhi. The more famous Chandrashekhar Azad also stayed in ‘Naya Bazar’.<br /><br />On December 23, 1929, a bomb exploded on railway track opposite Purana Qila. This was known as Delhi conspiracy case.<br /><br />In the first week of July, 1930, an armed robbery was committed in Gadodia stores in Delhi, in which the victim was robbed of Rs 14,000. “It is said that when the owner of the store learnt that a hold-up was done by revolutionaries, he did not pursue the matter.<br /></p>
