In 1928, to take revenge for the death of Lala Lajpat Rai, Bhagat Singh and his comrades killed a British police official named _________.
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct answer is Option (2) → Saunders
Lala Lajpat Rai died in November 1928 after a police lathi charge on a protest against the Simon Commission at Lahore. To avenge his death, Bhagat Singh, Rajguru, Sukhdev and Chandrashekhar Azad planned to kill the police superintendent James A. Scott, but on 17 December 1928 they shot J. P. Saunders, an Assistant Superintendent of Police, in a case of mistaken identity.