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100 Years of Kakori Rail Conspiracy
August 15 , 2025
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- The Kakori Rail Conspiracy took place on August 9 in 1925 near Kakori railway station in Uttar Pradesh.
- Revolutionaries stopped the 8-Down train on the Saharanpur to Lucknow line and seized government treasury funds.
- The action was carried out by members of the Hindustan Republican Association to fund the freedom movement.
- The British government responded with mass arrests and strict punishments.
- Ram Prasad Bismil, Ashfaqulla Khan, Rajendra Lahiri and Roshan Singh were executed in 1927.
- Others involved received long prison sentences.
- Chandrashekhar Azad evaded arrest and continued the struggle until 1931.
- In 2025 the 100th anniversary of the incident was officially observed.
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