Incident At Birla House, Delhi
On 20 January 1948 Madan Lal Pahwa along with Vishnu Ramkrishna Karkare, Shankar Kistaiya, Digambar Ramchandra Badge, Gopal Godse, Nathuram Godse and Narayan Apte came to Birla House in Delhi to carry out an attack on Mahatama Gandhi. Except for Madan Lal Pahwa and Vishnu Ramkrishna Karkare everyone reached the venue through the rear entrance in a cab. Surjeet Singh was the cab driver. Pahwa tried to bribe the gatekeeper Choturam at Birla Bhavan to let him go behind the podium to take photographs of Mahatma Gandhi from behind. However Choturam was suspicious and asked Pahwa the need of taking photographs from behind, especially while he did not have a camera. Madan Lal Pahwa just went off the podium. Choturam thought that he was going back to the taxi. In the meantime he placed a gun-cotton ball on the wall behind the podium and ignited it. The bomb went off without creating any panic. The team had left, abandoning Madan Lal Pahwa.
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