1) Ashfaqulla Khan was a renowned freedom warrior and a famous revolutionary leader.
2) He was born on October 22, 1900, in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh’s Shahjahanpur district.
3) Ashfaqulla Khan was a very little child when Gandhi launched the movement for non-cooperation.
4) The struggle against cooperation inspired him to fight for freedom.
5) Khan chose extremism once the non-cooperation movement was abandoned.
6) Ram Prasad Bismil was a person Ashfaqulla Khan met while on his voyage of freedom struggle.
7) On August 8, 1925, Ashfaqulla Khan organised a meeting with fellow freedom fighters in Shahjahanpur to discuss next steps.
8) Ashfaqulla Khan and other rebels robbed the government’s coffers from a train on August 9.
9) Following the theft, the police detained Khan in Faizabad.
10) On December 19, 1927, Ashfaqulla Khan received the British government’s death penalty, turning him into a martyr.
