Reaction of Jallianwalabagh in AICC meeting -Banaras, 30 May 1920

A meeting of the All India Congress Committee (AICC)was held at Banaras on 30 May 1920.It passed a large no. of resolutions of which the more important are;
1. AICC records the profound disappointment and dissatisfactionin the Hunter Committee Majority's Report.
, and regards its inquiry as incomplete, one-sided, and unsatisfactory, by reason of shutting out the evidence of the very Punjab leaders whose acts the Committee was called upon to investigate.....
2. A petition be represented to Parliament to take immediate steps to institute proceedings by way of impeachmentor otherwise to bring Sir Michael O'Dwyer to justice and to place General Dyer, Col. Johnson, Col.o'Brien and Bosworth Smith before His Majesty's Court of Justice in Great Britain for the cruelties committed in April-May, 1919, in Amritsar, Gujranwala, Kasur, and other places in the Punjab.That Rai Saheb Sri Ram and Malik Khan be dismissed and prosevcuted.
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The AICC strongly urges that in the interest of peace and contentment in India ...be revised.

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On 1 Aug 1920- Gandhi formally inaugurates Non-Cooperation movement (Khilafat Committee) by returning the three medals which 6he Govt. had awarded him for meritorious services, and addressing a letter to the Viceroy in which he declared that the attitude of the Govt. with regard to Khilafat and the Punjab , as demonstrated by " events that happened during past months." made it impossible for him to continue co-operation wih a Govt. that had acted so unscrupulously and for whom he could retain neither respect nor affection.",