What happened to the prisoners that were in the prison
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A prisoner of war (POW) is a non-combatant—whether a military member, an irregular military fighter, or a civilian—who is held captive by a belligerent power during or immediately after an armed conflict. The earliest recorded usage of the phrase "prisoner of war" dates back to 1610.[a]
Belligerents hold prisoners of war in custody for a range of legitimate and illegitimate reasons, such as isolating them from enemy combatants still in the field (releasing and repatriating them in an orderly manner after hostilities), demonstrating military victory, punishing them, prosecuting them for war crimes, exploiting them for their labour, recruiting or even conscripting them as their own combatants, collecting military and political intelligence from them, or indoctrinating them in new political or religious beliefs.[1]
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What happened to the Indian prisoners who were in jail for different reasons after 15 August 1947?
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First let me clarify that the number of political prisoners (freedom fighters) who were kept in prison for a long period of time between 1940 and 1947 were quite few.
Generally speaking, during this period,freedom fighters who were arrested on grounds of civil disobedience , were kept in prison for a few months at best 3-6 months and subsequently released. Between 1940 and 1945 the British Empire wanted 100% co-operation of the Indian people as they knew fully well that to win the Second World War they need the full co-operation of the Indian political leadership. Therefore, they did not antagonize the local population by keeping freedom fighters behind bars for long periods of time. Some freedom fighters of course died in prison since they received little or no medical attention.
However, those freedom fighters who were dubbed "extremist" by the British Empire (Bhagat Singh, Rajguru, Khudiram Bose etc) were promptly executed after their arrest.
So, when the British eventually left India after 15-Aug-1947 there were hardly any freedom fighter languishing in jails across India.