ICSE Class 10 Answered

The British government resorted to draconic measures in order to smother the Quit India Movement. The Press was heavily censored and the demonstrating crowds were machine gunned and even bombed from the air. Activists were arrested indiscriminately and prisoners were badly tortured. The police and especially the secret police reigned supreme during this time. By the end of the year 1942, nearly ten thousand people were killed and sixty thousand were arrested. The military took control of many towns and cities. The villages that rebelled had to pay heavy fines and the villagers had to tolerate mass floggings. The leaders of the movement were not spared. Gandhiji was detained at the Agha Khan Palace in Pune and the other prominent leaders were sent to jail in the Ahmednagar Fort.