Updated On: 12 April, 2023 07:45 PM IST | Mumbai | mid-day online correspondent
Sardar Udham Singh took revenge for the Jallianwala Bagh massacre by shooting Michael O`Dwyer, a British officer

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The Jallianwala Bagh massacre took place on 13 April 1919. Following the massacre, Sardar Udham Singh took revenge for it by shooting Michael O`Dwyer, the British officer who was the Governor General of Punjab. Sardar Udham Singh took revenge for the Jallianwala Bagh massacre by shooting Michael O`Dwyer, a British officer.
21 years after this massacre, on 13 March 1940, Sardar Udham Singh went to Caxton Hall in London and shot Michael O`Dwyer. Sardar Udham Singh had shot him while he was going to take his seat after delivering a speech at a meeting of the East India Association and the Royal Central Asian Society. Dyer died within minutes of being shot.