In the Kanpur Bolshevik Conspiracy Case of 1923-1924, newly turned communists such as M N Roy, Muzaffar Ahamed, S A Dange, Shaukat Usmani, Nalini Gupta, Singaravelu Chettiar, Ghulam Hussain and others were caught and jailed by the Government. They were accused of conspiring “to deprive the King Emperor of his sovereignty of British India, by complete separation of India from imperialistic Britain by a violent revolution.”