Sachindra Bakshi

He was one of revolutionaries who participated in the Kakori train robbery and two months later he and his friends were sent to Barrack number 11 in the Lucknow Central Jail (now called Lucknow District Jail) and was sentenced to life for the same.

Later life

In 1969 Bakshi was elected MLA of the Bharatiya Jana Sangh from Varanasi South. Once he narrated an incident related to the Kakori trial in the Vidhan Sabha which caused lot of uproar. He narrated how Jagat Narain Mulla, and his son - both of whom went on to become Congress leaders - for some money had chosen to be prosecution lawyers against the Kakori heroes.