POONA SATYAGRAH 519
The total number of arrests upto date is 1387 . Today the number of arrests was 102.” [1]
U. P. S. C. F. Satyagaha
Mr. P. N. Rajbhoj Sentenced for 6 months R. I.
Lucknow, Saturday
Mr. P. N. Rajbhoj, Ganeral Secretary of the All India Scheduled Castes’ Federation was convicted and sentenced yesterday to six months’ imprisonment by the City Magistrate, Mr. B. D. Sanwal, under Section 138 IPC for defying the District Magistrate’s order banning processions and causing apprehension of breach of peace.
Mr. Gopichand Pipal,
another Scheduled Caste Leader was sentenced to * months rigorous imprisonment on a similar charge.
Mr, Tilak Chand Kuril, President of the U. P. Scheduled Castes Federation, was directed by the Magistrate to furnish two sureties of rupees five hundred each to keep peace for six months.
“The Magistrate acquitted about sixty women and children who had been arrested in connection with the Satyagraha in Lucknow with a warning.—A.P.I.” [2]
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1 : Jai Bheem, 4th May 1947, P. 2.
2 : Jai Bheem, 25th May 1947, P. 2.
- Figure is not traceable—Editors.