 The quartet were imprisoned at Welikada Prison but after staging a hunger striker they were transferred to Bogambara Prison.The four LSSP leaders, aided by sympathetic prison guards, escaped from Bogambara on 7 April 1942 and whilst de Silva, Gunawardena and Perera fled to India Samarakkody went into hiding in Ceylon.Karalasingham was sent to Bombay, India in 1941 and became the "mascot of the Indo-Ceylon revolutionary leadership".