Along with Dr.gaya prasad and jaidev Kapoor he was arrested at the Saharanpur bomb factory in 1929 and made an accused in the second Lahore conspiracy case (1929-30) which ended with death sentences to Bhagat Singh, Rajouri and Sukhdev, and heavy jail sentences to several others. shiv Verma, along with some other, was transported for life and spent several years in adamant cellular jail where his final conversion to communism took place.