Batukeshwar Dutt, along with Bhagat Singh, carried out bombing of the Central Legislative Assembly in New Delhi on 8 April, 1929. The bombs had been designed not to kill, but some members, including George Ernest Schuster, the finance member of the Viceroy's Executive Council, were injured. Singh and Dutt stayed shouting the slogan Inquilab Zindabad and threw leaflets. The two men were arrested and sentenced to life imprisonment for: ‘‘causing explosions of a nature likely to endanger life, unlawfully and maliciously.’’