Maulvi Liaquat Ali was a Muslim religious leader from Allahabad (Prayagraj). He was one of the leaders in the revolt against the British in 1857, in what is now known as the First Indian war of Independence, or the uprising of 1857. He was a religious teacher, an upright pious Muslim, and a man of great courage and valour. He was a humble and simple man but when he took the reins of the freedom struggle, he became a dreadful enemy of the British.
Maulvi captured the Khusro Bagh and declared the independence of India Khusro Bagh became the headquarters of the sepoys under Maulvi Liaquat Ali who took charge as the Governor of liberated Allahabad. however, the Mutiny was swiftly put down and Khusro Bagh was retaken by the British in two weeks. Liaqat Ali was sentenced to life in prison at Port Blair, in one of the Cellular Jail in Andaman Islands. He was tried and sentenced to death, but died in captivity in Rangoon on 17 May 1892.