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After he was hanged at Pentonville prison, The Times wrote of Dhingra’s trial: ‘The nonchalance displayed by the assassin was of a character which is happily unusual in such trials in this country. He asked no questions and maintained a defiance of studied indifference. Afterwards, he walked smiling from the dock’. Dhingra was denied a Hindu burial and his remains were interred within the prison grounds. However, in 1976 they were discovered by accident and returned to India.
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