Chandra Shekhar Azad shot himself on this day
Indian revolutionary Chandra Shekhar Azad shot himself dead on February 27, 1931, at Alfred Park in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, aged 24. He played a key role in the Kakori conspiracy where he looted the train carrying cash belonging to the British treasury. Azad killed himself because he had made a pledge that the Police will never capture him alive.