Who provided legal defence to the people arrested in the aftermath of Chauri Chaura incident?

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In 1909, Malaviya, who was a lawyer, became the president of the Congress party. In 1918, he was elected to the Municipal Corporation of Allahabad, followed by an election to the Provincial Legislative Council, where he served for nearly three decades. Malaviya was a champion of education for women and stood against the practice of dowry. When he founded the BHU in 1916, Malaviya managed a difficult feat — a donation from the tight-fisted Nizam of Hyderabad. Even though he quit law practice when he joined politics, he returned to it in 1922 to defend those wrongly accused in the Chauri Chaura incident of 1919. A total of 225 people were brought to trial at Gorakhpur Sessions Court of Judge H. E. Holmes, on charges of “rioting and arson” in conjunction with the Chauri Chaura affair. Of these, six died while in police custody, two were sentenced to 2 years’ imprisonment, while 170 were sentenced to death by hanging and 47 were acquitted on 9 January 1923, following conviction in a trial which lasted eight months. After the 8 month-long trial, 172 people were sentenced to death, he managed to get 153 acquitted.