Swatantra Veer Savarkar(स्वतंत्र वीर सावरकर)

A polarising figure, Swatantra Veer Savarkar is revered by many as a freedom fighter but criticised by others for his communal ideology and the fact that he wrote mercy petitions to the British authorities from prison. Savarkar was also arrested in connection with Mahatma Gandhi's assassination but later acquitted after no evidence was found against him.