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==దుర్ఘటన==
[[Image:Jallianwallah.jpg|thumb|The Jallianwalla Bagh in 1919, months after the massacre.]]
[[File:'The Martyr's' well at Jallianwala Bagh.jpg|thumb|right|200px|తోటలో గల అమరవీరుల స్మారక బావి]]
[[1919]], [[ఏప్రిల్
A group of 90 Indian Army soldiers mostly Gurkha, Punjab rifles, [[Pathans]] [[infantry]], [[Dogra]] regiment and [[Baluchi regiment]], marched to the park accompanied by two [[Armored car (military)|armoured cars]]. The vehicles were unable to enter the Bagh through the narrow entrance.
The Jallianwala Bagh was bounded on all sides by houses and buildings and had few narrow entrances, most of which were kept permanently locked. A plaque in the monument says that 120 bodies were plucked out of the well.
As a result of the firing, hundreds of people were killed and thousands were injured. Official records put the figures at 379 killed (337 men, 41 boys and a six-week-old baby) and 200 injured, though the actual figure is hotly disputed to this day. The wounded could not be moved from where they had fallen, as a [[curfew]] had been declared.
Back in his headquarters, [[Brigadier-General]] [[Reginald Dyer]] reported to his superiors that he had been "confronted by a revolutionary [[army]]".
In a [[telegram]] sent to Dyer, British [[Lieutenant-Governor]] of Punjab, Sir [[Michael O'Dwyer]] wrote: ''"Your action is correct. Lieutenant Governor approves."''<ref>Disorder Inquiry Committee Report, Vol II, p 197</ref>
O'Dwyer requested that [[martial law]] be imposed upon Amritsar and other areas; this was granted by the [[Viceroy]], [[Frederic Thesiger, 1st Viscount Chelmsford|Lord Chelmsford]], after the massacre.
Dyer was called to appear before the [[Hunter Commission]], a commission of inquiry into the massacre that was ordered to convene by [[Secretary of State for India]] [[Edwin Montagu]], in late 1919. Dyer admitted before the commission that he came to know about the meeting at the Jallianwala Bagh at 12:40 hours that day but took no steps to prevent it. He stated that he had gone to the Bagh with the deliberate intention of opening fire if he found a crowd assembled there.
:"I think it quite possible that I could have dispersed the crowd without firing but they would have come back again and laughed, and I would have made, what I consider, a fool of myself." — Dyer's response to the Hunter Commission Enquiry. {{Fact|date=April 2008}}
Dyer said he would have used his [[machine gun]]s if he could have got them into the enclosure, but these were mounted on armoured cars. He said he did not stop firing when the crowd began to disperse because he thought it was his duty to keep firing until the crowd dispersed, and that a little firing would do no good. {{Fact|date=April 2008}}
He confessed that he did not take any steps to tend to the wounded after the firing. "''Certainly not. It was not my job. Hospitals were open and they could have gone there,''" was his response. {{Fact|date=April 2008}}
==ప్రతి చర్య==
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