Question

When was Mangal Pandey executed?

• A. $2$nd June, $1857$
• B. $3$rd May, $1855$
• C. $4$th May, $1844$
• D. $8$th April, $1857$

Answer 1

The correct option is D $8$th April, $1857$

Mangal Pandey was a sepoy in the 34th Regiment of the Bengal Native Infantry (BNI) of the English East India Company. he attacked his British officers, sparking off the First War of Indian Independence or as the British termed it, the Sepoy Mutiny of 1857. At Barrackpore near Kolkata on 29 March 1857, Pandey attacked and injured his British sergeant, besides wounding an adjutant. He was arrested and sentenced to death. He was hanged on 8 April 1857.