Which of the following statements is correct about “Non-cooperation” movement in India?

A) During the Non-Cooperation Movement thousands of Indians were put in jail. 
B) Gandhiji himself was arrested in March 1922, and charged with sedition.
C) The Dandi March marked the beginning of Non-Cooperation movement
D) The movement was called off because of the Chauri Chaura incident.
E) In March 1922 a group of merchants attacked and torched a police station in the hamlet of Chauri Chaura, in the United Province.

Choose the correct answer from the given options:

A, B and D

The correct answer is Option 2 - A, B and D

The correct statements are:

A) During the Non-Cooperation Movement thousands of Indians were put in jail. 
B) Gandhiji himself was arrested in March 1922, and charged with sedition.
D) The movement was called off because of the Chauri Chaura incident.

Correction in the incorrect statements:

C) The Dandi March marked the beginning of CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE MOVEMENT, not Non-Cooperation movement

E) In FEBRUARY 1922, a group of PEASANTS attacked and torched a police station in the hamlet of Chauri Chaura, in the United Province.

“Non-cooperation,” wrote Mahatma Gandhi’s American biographer Louis Fischer, “became the name of an epoch in the life of India and of Gandhiji. Non-cooperation was negative enough to be peaceful but positive enough to be effective. It entailed denial, renunciation, and self-discipline. It was training for self-rule.” As a consequence of the Non-Cooperation Movement the British Raj was shaken to its foundations for the first time since the Revolt of 1857. Then, in February 1922, a group of peasants attacked and torched a police station in the hamlet of Chauri Chaura, in the United Provinces (now, Uttar Pradesh and Uttaranchal). Several constables perished in the conflagration. This act of violence prompted Gandhiji to call off the movement altogether. “No provocation,” he insisted, “can possibly justify (the) brutal murder of men who had been rendered defenceless and who had virtually thrown themselves on the mercy of the mob.”

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.” Since Gandhiji had violated the law it was obligatory for the Bench to sentence him to six years’ imprisonment, but, said Judge Broomfield, “If the course of events in India should make it possible for the Government to reduce the period and release you, no one will be better pleased than I”.