Baba Prithvi Singh Azad

Baba Prithvi Singh Azad was a revolutionary freedom fighter of India, born in village Labru in Patiala district of Punjab. He was one of the founder members of the Gadar Party. He was sentenced to death in the Lahore Conspiracy Case 1915, but afterwards commuted to life imprisonment. He was deported to Cellular jail in Andamans. However, he was repatriated to mainland and while on transit to Nagpur Central Jail escaped from police custody from a running mail train on 29-11-1922. Thereafter, he led an underground life for sixteen years. In 1938, he voluntarily surrendered to Mahatma Gandhi. He was again arrested by the British Government, but was released with the outbreak of the second world war in 1939.

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