# Khudiram Bose artefacts lie neglected in Bihar, officials say 2026-08-16T13:44:01+00:00 | Governance | Indian Opinion Desk Corroboration: 1 independent outlet The wooden witness box from the 1908 trial of freedom fighter Khudiram Bose is decaying in a storeroom of the Muzaffarpur district mining department, sources told The Federal. The 18-year-old revolutionary was hanged by the British for a bombing that killed two British women. Officials say the box, kept with discarded furniture, has cracks and breaks and may not survive without urgent preservation. Advocate SK Jha said the box should be declared national heritage and placed in a museum, alleging that Bose's case diary, hundreds of pages long, is also missing. The bombing spot in Company Bagh now houses a meat market, and a professor at Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar Bihar University said younger generations know little of Bose. District magistrate Kumar Gaurav told The Federal he had instructed officials to report on the matter and that steps would be taken to preserve the witness box. ## Coverage - thefederal.com This story was synthesised by AI from the source linked above. Tags: Anushilan Samiti, Bihar government, Khudiram Bose, muzaffarpur Canonical: https://indianopinion.org/khudiram-bose-artefacts-lie-neglected-in-bihar-officials-say/ License: Summary and commentary (c) Indian Opinion, reusable with attribution. Facts belong to the linked sources. Cite: https://indianopinion.org/khudiram-bose-artefacts-lie-neglected-in-bihar-officials-say/#story-in-brief Review state: restored archive article, accurate at time of publication, not offered to search indexes. How this brief was made: an AI model read the report linked above and wrote this summary and analysis, which were published automatically. Published briefs are sampled every hour by an automated quality check; the editor verifies its findings and approves corrections, and corrected briefs carry a dated correction line. We do no original reporting. Methodology: https://indianopinion.org/ai-use-policy/