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Who among the following revolutionaries was sentenced to death and hanged in the Lahore Conspiracy Case along with Bhagat Singh and Sukhdev in March 1931?

A. Batukeshwar Dutt
B. Rajguru✓ Correct Answer
C. Chandrashekhar Azad
D. Jogesh Chandra Chatterjee

💡 Solution & Explanation

Shivaram Rajguru, along with Bhagat Singh and Sukhdev, was executed on March 23, 1931, in Lahore jail for the assassination of British police officer John Saunders, an event commemorated annually as Martyrs Day in India. Other figures like Batukeshwar Dutt were transported for life in the Central Assembly bomb case but survived the prison sentence. The Lahore Conspiracy Case trials galvanized nationalist sentiments and significantly accelerated youth participation in the Indian freedom struggle.

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