‘CHAURI CHAURA’ INCIDENT

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• The day marks 100 years of the ‘Chauri Chaura’ incident, a landmark event in the country’s fight for independence.
  
  
• The Chauri Chaura incident took place on 4 February 1922 at Chauri Chaura in the Gorakhpur district of the United Province (modern Uttar Pradesh) in British India.
  
  
• In this, a large group of protesters participating in the Non-cooperation movement, clashed with police who opened fire. In retaliation the demonstrators attacked and set fire to a police station, killing all of its occupants.
  
  
• The incident led to the death of three civilians and 22 policemen.
  
  
• Mahatma Gandhi, who was strictly against violence, halted the non-co-operation movement on the national level on 12 February 1922, as a direct result of this incident.