INDIAN CONSPIRACY

Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 301, 15 September 1933, Page 11

INDIAN CONSPIRACY

Indore Plotters Sentenced TERMS OF IMPRISONMENT (Received September 14, 8.30 p.m.) Calcutta, September 14. Twenty-two accused in connection with the Indore conspiracy case, whose plotting Included the setting up ni India of an independent army, received . sentences ranging from seven years’ hard labour to six months. Remarkable revelations were made at the opening at Calcutta early in August of the inter-provincial conspiracy case, in which 38 persons were charged before a special trbunal with forming a revolutionary organisation and waging war against the King-Emperor. The leader of the conspiracy was Provat Chakravarti, who war arrested in November, 1930, and letained at Buxa detention camp. He absconded in January, 1932, and was rearrested this year. The public prosecutor said that the conspiracy began at Buxa Camp. During the period he’was an absconder Chakravarti built up an elaborate organisation for a simultaneous effective armed rising in different parts of India and Burma. The conspirators, believing individual murders of British and Indian officials an ineffective method of gaining their independence, decided on a real rebellion. They began to recruit men throughout India and Burma, and to . procure money by commission on' dacoities and robberies, and to collect arms and explosives by smuggling them through ships' crews. The prosecutor described in detail the rounding up of the conspiracy gang and the seizure of incriminating documents, arms, and explosives.