RAS question
The Kakori Conspiracy Case (1925) involved the robbery of:
Correct answer: (D) Government treasury carried by train at Kakori near Lucknow.
The Kakori Conspiracy Case of 1925 involved the robbery of government treasury being carried by train near Kakori railway station close to Lucknow.
Explanation
The event was not an ordinary dacoity or a private theft: it was a political train robbery directed at government money. On 9 August 1925, HRA members including Ram Prasad Bismil, Ashfaqulla Khan, Rajendra Lahiri and Chandrashekhar Azad robbed the government treasury from a train at Kakori, near Lucknow. New India Samachar, Press Information Bureau also identifies it as the looting of government treasury being carried by train near Kakori railway station close to Lucknow, under Ramprasad Bismil's leadership. That is why the answer must specify both the object robbed, the government treasury, and the setting, a train at Kakori. Bismil, Ashfaqulla Khan, Lahiri and Thakur Roshan Singh were later hanged.
Why the other options are wrong
- (A) A bank in Kakori is wrong because the incident concerned treasury money carried by train, not a bank robbery.
- (B) British military supplies is wrong because the target was government treasury funds, not arms, ammunition or supplies.
- (C) Gold from a temple is wrong because the incident was not a temple theft; it concerned government treasury on a train.
Concept
This tests the revolutionary strand of the Indian national movement, especially how RAS asks factual links between an incident, its location and the organisation or leaders involved. Kakori recurs because it connects the HRA, named revolutionaries and colonial prosecution in one compact case.