The Police
had stolen and hidden the statement prepared by Dhingra. When Dhingra asked them to read
it in the court they pretended as if they knew nothing about it. Savarkar came to know of
it. He had a copy of the statement. An idea struck Savarkar. 'I must do something to get
this historic statement published in all the papers of important countries before Madanlal
breathes his last. That will give him some consolation at the time of his death', he
thought.
Savarkar called a revolutionary friend of his called Gyan Chand Varma and told him to
get the statement printed in all the important papers of European countries. Gyan Chand
Varma took it and went to Paris secretly. There he printed thousands of copies of the
statement.
He sent it to the leading newspapers of several important countries like Germany, Italy
and America.
The Daily News was an important newspaper published from London. An English
friend of Savarkars was working in the Daily News. While the paper was
being printed at night, he inserted Dhingras statement; no one else knew what he was
doing. So on the 16th of August, a day before Dhingras death, the statement appeared
in the Daily News. Dhingra was overjoyed when he came to know of it. He danced for
joy inside the jail.
The following is the gist of Dhingras statement: