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CHIRNER
Cirner (Uran Peta, 17°50' N, 73°00' E., p. 2,129; RS. Bombay
V. T., 22 m.) is known for the jungle satyagraha in the Civil Disobedience Movement of 1930. On 25th of September of that year the participants in the movement violated the forest laws and the police came to restore order. In the confusion that followed there was some stone throwing. The police then resorted to firing which resulted in a few deaths. Some persons were arrested and were sentenced to three years of rigorous imprisonment by the Sessions Court at Thana. Nothing daunted the people from commemorating the incident by raising a pillar which was, however, razed to the ground subsequently by the British Government. When in 1937 Congress Ministry came to power the memorial was revived at the hands of the Chief Minister Shri B. G. Kher on 25th September 1937.
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