Who was C.N. Broomfield?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 4
The correct answer is Option (4) → The Judge who presided over Mahatma Gandhi’s trial for Non-Cooperation Movement.
During the Non-Cooperation Movement Gandhiji was arrested in March 1922 and charged with sedition. Justice C.N. Broomfield was the judge who presided over his trial.
NCERT (2026-27): “2.1 Knitting a popular movement … During the Non-Cooperation Movement thousands of Indians were put in jail. Gandhiji himself was arrested in March 1922, and charged with sedition. The judge who presided over his trial, Justice C.N. Broomfield, made a remarkable speech while pronouncing his sentence. ‘It would be impossible to ignore the fact,’ remarked the judge, ‘that you are in a different category from any person I have ever tried or am likely to try. It would be impossible to ignore the fact that, in the eyes of millions of your countrymen, you are a great patriot and a leader. Even those who differ from you in politics look upon you as a man of high ideals and of even saintly life.…” |