Chattar Lal in 1935.
Chattar Lal (1893-1945) was an Indian politician and nationalist, a Japanese collaborator during WW2, Prime Minister of Benares between 1929 and 1935 and a secret Thuggee member.
Biography[]
Early years[]
Chattar Lal was born in Patna, India in 1893. Well-spoken and outwardly demure, Chattar Lal seemed to have the makings of an able politician. He was a graduate of Oxford University and served as Prime Minister to Maharajah Premjit Singh and his son Zalim Singh. As the Maharajah was still a minor, it was largely apparent that Lal took care of most of the day-to-day operations of the region. However, Lal was secretly a fanatical member of the murderous Thuggee, devoted to worshiping Kali Ma with human sacrifice. Through regularly administered doses of psychotropic drugs, he subjugated the young Maharajah, thus allowing the Thuggee to operate with impunity inside Pankot until 1935.
1935[]
In 1935 Dr. Henry Jones Jr. arrived with his to companions, an American female singer Willie Scott and a Chinese orphan kid named Wan Li or Short Round. Indy joined the dinner with Lal and British colonel Phillip Blumburtt in the palace. That night Jones, Scott and Shorty were witnesses of the horror of the pagan cult inside the temple.
Scott and Short Round were caught and Jones was later capture by the guards. The next day, Willie was served as a human sacrifice, Shorty was enslaved and Jones drugged. Shorty managed to escape and he helped Indy to ewake up from his state. Later both of them fought the guards and Lal tried to pull down the sacrifice wheel but Jones punched him in the face and he was crushed. Willie was rescued from the Lava Pit.
Fate[]
Though injured in the battle, Lal escaped the palace with a good amount of stolen treasure. The British then kept a vigilant eye out for Lal should he try to establish another Kali temple.
During World War II, Lal escaped to Burma and he joined the Azad Hind and supported the Imperial Japanese Army in their conquest of India with the hope of restoring the cult and killing and genocide the British as a revenge.
Death[]
In 1945 the Japanese surrender and Lal tried to escape from British Raj authorities but he was capture and hanged by orders of Louis Mountbatten.