Gandhiji compelled the British authorities to take note of the poor peasants' plight. The Lieutenant Governor appointed an official commission of inquiry into the indigo sharecroppers' situation. The findings of the commission revealed the plight of the peasants of Champaran. Seeing this, the British planters agreed, in principle, to make refunds to the peasants. They agreed to pay 25% of the money which they had illegally and deceitfully extorted from the sharecroppers.