Kakori Trial
Ram Prasad Bismil and some others were charged with various offences, including robbery and murder. Fifteen people had been released due to lack of evidence and a further five had absconded. Two of the absconders — Ashfaqullah Khan and Sachindra Bakshi — were captured after the trial, while one of the others, Chandrasekhar Azad, reorganised the HRA in 1928 and was killed on 27 February 1931 at Alfred Park, Allahabad.
Charges pressed against a further four men were dropped. Damodar Swarup Seth was discharged due to illness, while Veer Bhadra Tiwari, Jyoti Shankar Dixit and Shiv Charan Lal have been suspected of providing information to the authorities. A further two people - Banarsi Lal and Indu Bhushan Mitra - became approvers: they helped the prosecution, as also did Banwari Lal in return for a lenient sentence of two years imprisonment.
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