Roshan Singh


Thakur Roshan Singh was an Indian revolutionary, born in the village of Nabada Shahjahanpur district, Uttar Pradesh, who was sentenced in the Bareilly shooting case during the Non Cooperation Movement of 1921-22. After release from Bareilly Central Jail, he joined the Hindustan Republican Association in 1924. Although he had not taken part in the Kakori conspiracy of August 1925, he was arrested and tried in March 1927 by the then British Government, for a murder carried out during the Kakori train robbery. He was sentenced to death, along with Pandit Ram Prasad Bismil, Ashfaqulla Khan and Rajendra Lahiri. He was executed at Malaka/Naini jail in the Allahabad district. It is well documented that after his death, his family had to face social and economic hardship, including problems finding a matrimonial match for his daughters.