SSC CPO 2024 PYQ — Question 77

SSC CPO - 29 June 2024 - Shift 1 • General Awareness • Q77

Who was executed as an accomplice to the murder of AMT Jackson ?

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Correct answer: D

Explanation

The correct answer is option 4 i.e. Krishnaji Gopal Karve.

  • As a co-conspirator in the assassination of British official and Punjab's then-Lord Governor A. M. T. Jackson, Krishna Ji Kurve was put to death.
  • In the midst of escalating anti-colonial fervour, Lala Lajpat Rai's followers carried out the assassination in 1909.
  • Kurve, along with others implicated, was captured and later sentenced to death by the British government for his role in the conspiracy.