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dated July 26, 1956: Memorial to Tilak

The courtroom in the Bombay High Court where Lokamanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak was tried on charges of sedition and twice sentenced to terms of imprisonment was on July 24 the scene of celebration of his 100th birth anniversary. The Chief Justice of Bombay, Mr. M.C. Chagla, unveiled a tablet which enshrined the words Tilak spoke soon after he was sentenced to six years' imprisonment on a charge of sedition in 1908. Tilak's words were: "In spite of the verdict of the jury, I maintain that I am innocent. There are higher powers that rule the destiny of mankind and it may be the will of Providence that the cause which I represent may prosper more by the suffering than by my remaining free." Mr. Chagla said though he was tried and sentenced in "this very courtroom" twice, the inevitable verdict of history was that "these two convictions stood condemned and that they had been intended to suppress the voice of freedom and that the action of the Lokamanya had been justified as the right of every individual."

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