Batukeshwar Dutt (Central Assembly Bomb Case )
Alias Battu, s/o Gosta Bihari Dutt, Oari village, Khanda, Burdwan, U.P. aws member of Hindusthan Socialist Republican Army and a close friend of Chandrasekhar Azad and Bhagat Singh. Working in Kanpur for the party . Know how to make friends. He along with Bhagat Singh had thrown bomb in the Central Assembly on 8th April 1929 to register protest of the patriotic Indian people against the Trade dispute bill and raised the slogan " Inquilab Zindabad" Sent up in Central Assembly bomb case. Sentenced on 12th June 1929 to life imprisonment from the court of session Judge of Delhi under section 307 Indian Penal Code and 4 Explosive Act. Deported to the Cellular Jail .Participated in two hunger strikes in Cellular Jail. Rapatriated in 1937. Released from Bankipur jail in the year 1938.
Ramesh Chandra Chatterjee (Carrying out of revolutionary punishment on a notorious S.I.)
Born 24.03.1912, Kirtipasha,Jhalkathi, Barisal, Bangladesh, s/o Late Durga Kumar Chatterjee, Govt service holder at the age of 14 came in contact with Yugantar Party. In the trial and session court sentenced to death. Commuted to transportation for life by high court. Deported to Andamans. Joined the two hunger strikes in Cellular Jail. 1933, May for 45 days and 1937 July for 37 days. Another one in Alipore Central Jail in 1939 July for 36 days. Repatriated in January 1938. Released 1946 August. Total jail period more than 17 years.
Pran Krishna Chakraborty (Hilli Railway Station Action ( The Then East Bengal Railways on 29.10.1933) )
Born October 1933, Faridpur,Bangladesh, s/o Late Jankinath chakraborty , when he was a IIIrd year student of Midford Medical school, Dacca gave up studies and engaged in the revolutionary works. Belonged to Anusheela Samity. Arrested in December 1932 at Jalpaiguri with Arms. Sentenced to aprison term of 7 years. While being transferred from Jalpaiguri jail to Calcutta jail escaped from the custody of armed police escort from a running train with convicts uniform and with steel handcuffs locked on the wrist. Went underground. A reward was declared by the then British Govt. for his arrest. Later arrested on 29.10.1933 on the bank of a river in the afternoon following the nightraid on Hilli railway station. The trial court sentenced him to death. Commuted by the High court to prison term of 25 years. Deported to the Andamans . Took part in the Cellular Jail second hunger strike(1937). Fell a victim to the brutal punishment of flogging in the Cellular Jail. Repatriated in January 1938. Took part in another hunger strike in 1939 ,July for 36 days in Alipore Central Jail. Released on 31st August 1946. Total jail period 14 years.
Nitya Ranjan Choudhury (Tilon Action of West Dinajpur )
Born 1906, Balurghat, West Dinajpur, West Bengal. S/o late Lalit Mohan Choudhury. Matriculated. Belonged to Yugantar Party. Arrested on 4th August 1934 in connection with an action ( Tilon Action - W. Dinajpur). Sentenced to Ten years prison term. Deported to the Andamans. Took part in the second hunger strike in Cellular jail-July 1937 for 37 days. Total jail period more than six years.
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