04-23-2008, 12:00 AM
April 22 1857.
Jemadar Ishwari Prasad was sentenced to death and hanged.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->General John Hearsey came out to see him on the parade ground, and claimed later that Mangal Pandey was in some kind of "religious frenzy". <b>He ordered a Jemadar Ishwari Prasad to arrest Mangal Pandey, but the Jemadar refused.</b> The whole regiment, with the single exception of a soldier called Shaikh Paltu, drew back from restraining or arresting Mangal Pandey. Shaikh Paltu restrained Pandey from continuing his attack.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Jemadar Ishwari Prasad was sentenced to death and hanged.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->General John Hearsey came out to see him on the parade ground, and claimed later that Mangal Pandey was in some kind of "religious frenzy". <b>He ordered a Jemadar Ishwari Prasad to arrest Mangal Pandey, but the Jemadar refused.</b> The whole regiment, with the single exception of a soldier called Shaikh Paltu, drew back from restraining or arresting Mangal Pandey. Shaikh Paltu restrained Pandey from continuing his attack.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->