SSC GD 2025 PYQ — Question 28

The correct answer is option 4 i.e. Rash Behari Bose.

• Rash Behari Bose was the chief architect and mastermind behind the attempt to assassinate Viceroy Lord Hardinge.
• The Delhi Conspiracy Case (also known as the Hardinge Bomb Case) took place on 23 December 1912, when a bomb was thrown at Lord Hardinge, the then Viceroy of India, during a ceremonial procession in Chandni Chowk, Delhi.
• Lord Hardinge was wounded, and his mahaut (elephant driver) was killed in the attack.
• Ras Bihari Bose is believed to have planned or orchestrated the conspiracy, but it was never legally proven that he personally hurled the bomb.
• Basant Kumar Biswas, a young revolutionary associated with the Anushilan Samiti, was convicted of actually throwing the bomb.
• Others, including Amir Chand and Avadh Behari, were also tried and executed for their roles in the conspiracy.
• Ras Bihari Bose managed to evade arrest and later fled to Japan, where he continued his revolutionary activities, especially during World War II.
• Before going to Japan, he was also involved in organizing the Ghadar Conspiracy of 1915.

Other Options:

• Khudiram Bose was executed in 1908 for his role in the Muzaffarpur Conspiracy, which targeted Magistrate Kingsford, not Lord Hardinge.
• Chandra Shekhar Azad and Bhagat Singh were prominent in later revolutionary activities (late 1920s), such as the assassination of Saunders and the Central Assembly Bombing, which took place much later than the Hardinge bomb attack in 1912.