UPSC Previous Year Question | Prelims GS | 2025

Who provided legal defence to the people arrested in the aftermath of the Chauri Chaura incident?

  1. C.R. Das
  2. Madan Mohan Malaviya and Krishna Kant
  3. Dr. Saifuddin Kitchlew and Khwaja Hasan Nizami
  4. M.A. Jinnah

Answer

Correct Answer

Madan Mohan Malaviya and Krishna Kant

Explanation

Madan Mohan Malaviya, along with Krishna Kant Malaviya, provided legal defence to those arrested in connection with the Chauri Chaura incident of 1922, in which a mob set fire to a police station killing several policemen, leading Gandhiji to suspend the Non-Cooperation Movement.

Topics: chauri chaura, freedom struggle, history