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Following the two trials, Savarkar, then aged 28, was convicted and sentenced to 50-years imprisonment and transported on 4 July 1911 to the infamous Cellular Jail in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. He was considered by the British government as a political prisoner. Freedom fighter Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, aka Veer Sawarkar, and several others spent time at the Cellular Jail in Andaman and Nicobar islands for revolting against the British rule. They were brutalised too. Savarkar applied to the Bombay Government for certain concessions in connection with his sentences. However, by Government letter No. 2022, dated 4 April 1911, his application was rejected and he was informed that the question of remitting the second sentence of transportation for life would be considered in due course on the expiry of the first sentence of transportation for life.A month after arriving in the Cellular Jail, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Savarkar submitted his first clemency petition on 30 August 1911. This petition was rejected on 3 September 1911. Savarkar submitted his next clemency petition on 14 November 1913 and presented it personally to the Home Member of the Governor General's council, Sir Reginald Craddock.In his letter, he described himself as a "prodigal son" longing to return to the "parental doors of the government".He wrote that his release from the jail will recast the faith of many Indians in the British rule. Also, he said "Moreover, my conversion to the constitutional line would bring back all those misled young men in India and abroad who were once looking up to me as their guide. I am ready to serve the government in any capacity they like, for as my conversion is conscientious so I hope my future conduct would be. By keeping me in jail, nothing can be got in comparison to what would be otherwise." In 1917, Savarkar submitted another clemency petition, this time for a general amnesty of all political prisoners. Savarkar was informed on 1 February 1918 that the clemency petition was placed before the British colonial government.In December 1919, there was a Royal proclamation by King-Emperor George V. The Paragraph 6 of this proclamation included a declaration of Royal clemency to political offenders.In view of Royal proclamation, Savarkar submitted his fourth clemency petition to the British colonial government on 30 March 1920,[39] in which he stated that "So far from believing in the militant school of the Bukanin type, I do not contribute even to the peaceful and philosophical anarchism of a Kuropatkin [sic.] or a Tolstoy. And as to my revolutionary tendencies in the past:- it is not only now for the object of sharing the clemency but years before this have I informed of and written to the Government in my petitions (1918, 1914) about my firm intention to abide by the constitution and stand by it as soon as a beginning was made to frame it by Mr. Montagu. Since that the Reforms and then the Proclamation have only confirmed me in my views and recently I have publicly avowed my faith in and readiness to stand by the side of orderly and constitutional development." This petition was rejected on 12 July 1920 by the British colonial government.After considering the petition, the British colonial government contemplated releasing Ganesh Savarkar but not Vinayak Savarkar. The rationale for doing so was stated as follows It may be observed that if Ganesh is released and Vinayak is retained in custody, the latter will become in some measure a hostage for the former, who will see that his own misconduct does not jeopardize his brother's chances of release at some future date. Savarkar signed a statement endorsing his trial, verdict, and British law, and renouncing violence, a bargain for freedom. The Andaman and Nicobar Islands are today a picturesque place and a favourite with tourists. It has a very dark history of hundred years upto 1947The jail was meant to hold, torture and demoralise the most hardcore among the freedom fightersVeer Savarkar or Vinayak Damodar Sawarkar was one of the inmates there. Thousands among the 80,000 incarcerated there over the century, died horrid deaths As we all know, Cellular jail - the notorious incarceration facility of the colonial British era - is located in Port Blair in India's Andaman and the Nicobar Islands in the Bay of Bengal. The facility was used to put away the hardened freedom fighters and to put them through abuse, torture, humiliation and isolation till their spirit broke. Important personality of India The life of Vinayak Damodar Savarkar