 Support for the movement in Sindh was such that the British rulers had to send special troops consisting of European battalions.Hemu Kalani found out that a railway train of these troops and their supplies would be passing through his local town and decided to derail it by removing the fishplates from the railway track.This despite the fact that neither he nor his colleagues had the necessary tools and so had to use a rope as a means to loosen the fixings.