Police officer who arrested Mahatma dead

LONDON, APRIL 30. An Indian-born British police officer responsible for the arrest and imprisonment of Mahatma Gandhi in 1942, after the Father of the Nation had made a public speech in the town of Nagpur, is no more.

The officer, Colonel Frank Wright, who was awarded an immediate OBE (military), died this week at the age of 97.

In Nagpur, Wright, as District Superintendent of Police, was given the task of arresting Gandhiji, for having defied a ban on political speeches.

Wright, was born on June 2, 1902, at Buldana, a hill station in the then Central Province of India, where his father G. G. Wright was serving as the commandant of the Police Training School.

- PTI

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