WAR WITH KING
INDIAN CONSPIRACY TRIAL LASTS TWO YEARS COURT CONVICTS 31 MEN WIDESPREAD RISING PLAN FUNDS GAINED BY THEFTS By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Rec. 12.50 a.m. Calcutta, May 1. After a trial lasting nearly two years, in which 500 witnesses were examined, 31 men were convicted by ,a special tribunal at Calcutta on a charge of conspiracy to wage war against the King. Six were sentenced to transportation for life, three to ten years’ imprisonment, nine to seven years’ imprisonment and the remainder to from six years’ to one year’s imprisonment. Four men were acquitted, but two were immediately re-arrested under the Criminal Law Amendment Act, while two who turned King’s evidence were pardoned. The conspiracy was described as a plan to promote simultaneous armed risings throughout India and Burma, to facilitate which men were recruited and arms, explosives and funds obtained through widespread dacoities, robberies and murders.
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Taranaki Daily News, 2 May 1935, Page 5
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