Background
His father"s name was Bhai Mathura Das.
His father"s name was Bhai Mathura Das.
He was sentenced to death and hanged by the British Raj for his role in Delhi conspiracy case. Earlier Bhai Balmukund born in 1889 at village Kariala in Jhelum district (now in Pakistan). Balmukund"s interest in national movement aroused when he was a student.
After graduation, he took the profession of teaching, but his attachments to the national movement made him an ardent nationalist.
On December 23, 1912, when Lord Hardinge was marching in a state through the Chandni Chowk, Delhi, a bomb was thrown on him. The Viceroy received minor injuries only, but his attendant was killed.
Another bomb was thrown at some Europeans at Lawrence Garden, Lahore five months later on May 17, 1913. Following investigations, Balmukund was arrested from Jodhpur, where he was working as a tutor of the Jodhpur Maharaja"s sons.
He was hanged in the Ambala Central Jail on May 11, 1915 at the age of 32.
