Punjab: District admin, memorial trust differ on number of victims of Jallianwala Bagh massacre | Cities News, The Indian Express

Punjab: District admin, memorial trust differ on number of victims of Jallianwala Bagh massacre | Cities News, The Indian Express

Written by Kamaldeep Singh Brar |Amritsar |Published: March 18, 2019 10:31:36 am

Punjab: District admin, memorial trust differ on number of victims of Jallianwala Bagh massacre

According to secretary of the trust, Sukumar Mukherjee, and an information board inside the bagh, as many as 379 people had died in its premises on 13 April, 1919 when Colonel Reginald Edward Harry Dyer ordered the firing on a peaceful assembly.

A memorial installed by Punjab government just outside Bagh, on the heritage walk street leading to the Golden Temple, suggests that 501 people were killed. (Source: File)

While the country is going to observe 100th anniversary of Jallianwala Bagh massacre next month, Amritsar district administration is not sure whether it has any original record related to the incident. District administration and Jallianwala Bagh National Memorial Trust are also not on the same page over the number of people killed during the massacre.