The Kakori Incident[1] involved Pandit Ram Prasad Bismil, Roshan Singh, Ashfaqulla Khan, Roshan Singh, and eight other revolutionaries who planned to rob the government treasury from a train at Kakori station near Lucknow to fund an armed revolution in India.

He completed his law studies at Agra University and started his legal practice in Lucknow, quickly gaining a reputation among the prominent lawyers of his time.

He maintained close relationships with notable figures such as Pandit Motilal Nehru, Babu Ganga Prasad Verma, C. Y. Chintamani and Bishan Narayan Dar.

Following the Montagu–Chelmsford Reforms, he was elected as a member of the United Provinces Legislative Council and appointed Minister for Local Self-Government.

Furthermore, he was the public prosecutor in the Kakori Conspiracy Case[4] of 1926, where he successfully proved the involvement of the Hindustan Republican Association (HRA) in the robbery.