He vowed that he would never be arrested by the British police and that he would die a free man.He shot himself to avoid arrest.

Chandrasekhar Azad (1906-1931) famously vowed never to be captured alive by the British and carried a pistol to end his own life if cornered. In 1931, surrounded by police at Alfred Park in Allahabad after being betrayed by an informer, he shot himself to avoid arrest, dying as he had lived - a free man. His last words reflected his revolutionary commitment to freedom.