On 8 April 1857 a young soldier Mangal Pandey was hanged to death for attacking his officers in Barrackpore. Some days later, some sepoys of the regiment at Meerut refused to do the army drill using the new cartridges which were suspected of being coated with the fat of cows and pigs. Eighty five sepoys were dismissed from service and sentenced to ten years in jail for disobeying their officers. This happened on 9 may 1857. The response of the other Indian soldiers in meerut was quite extraordinary. On 10 May .the soldiers matched to the jail the in meerut and released the imprisoned sepoys they attached and killed British officers. They captured guns and ammunition and set fire to the buildings and properties of the British and declared war on the firangis. The soldiers were determined to bring an end to their rulje in the country. But who wound ruld the lands instead ? The soldiers had an answer to this qustion the Mughal emperor Nahadur Shah Zafar.