Madar Lal Dhingra - a political assassination. Madar (also given as Madan) Lal Dhingra was a 25 year old Indian revolutionary who assassinated Sir William Hutt Curzon Wyllie, a senior official in the British Indian Government. India was a British colony at this time and there were the beginnings of a struggle for independence. The crime took place on Thursday the 1st of July 1909 at the Imperial Institute of London University in South Kensington in London. Both Sir William and Dhingra had attended a concert there that evening and Dhingra was talking to Sir William in the foyer afterwards, and then fired five shots into him, killing him instantly. Dr. Cawas Lalcaca tried to aid Sir William and was shot twice by Dhingra. He died later from his wounds. Dhingra now attempted suicide, putting the gun to his head and pulling the trigger, but he had not saved a bullet for himself. He was overpowered by others and held until the police arrived. The police investiga...