Kakori Conspiracy

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Kakori train robbery (also called the Kakori Conspiracy or Kakori Case) was a train robbery that took place at Kakori, near Lucknow, on August 9 1925 during the Indian Independence Movement against the British. Following the arrest of Ashfaqullah, the police tried to make him provide evidence against his accomplices, but he refused. Despite protests by the defence committee, which was chaired by Motilal Nehru, four of the men involved, namely Ram Prasad Bismil, Ashfaqullah Khan, Rajendra Lahiri and Roshan Singh were sentenced to death by the Court of Justice. The others were either given life sentences or long prison terms. There were widespread protests against the Court's decision all over the country, and members of the Central Legislature even petitioned the Viceroy of India to commute the death sentences given to the four men to life sentences.