Haridas Dutta (16 November 1890 — 29 February 1976) was a

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revolutionary involved with

Rodda company arms heist The Rodda company arms heist took place on 26 August 1914 in Calcutta, British India. Members of the ''Jugantar'' faction of the Bengali revolutionary organisation ''Anushilan Samiti'' intercepted a shipment of Mauser Pistols and ammunition belo ...

case.

Early life

Dutta was born in 1890 in

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. He came in contact with senior Bengali revolutionary Hemchandra Ghosh and joined in Mukti Sangha. In 1912, Dutta and Khagendra Nath Das entered into Alexander Jute Mill near

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as labour and worked there for three months to assassinate a British engineer. But they failed and fled away from there.

Rodda arms heist

While Shrish Chandra Mitra alias ''Habu'' informed about the consignment of arms and ammunition of the Radda Company, activists Bipin Behari Ganguli,

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, Anukul Mukherjee and others planned to rob this. The date for the heist was fixed on 26 August 1914. Dutta meet lawyer PD Himmatsinka, at Mitra Lane,

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. Himmatsinka with the help of a barber gave Dutta a bullock cart driver look. On 26 August Shrish Chandra Mitra loaded 10 boxes of ammunition containing 50 Mauser pistol and huge number of

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in a cart driven by Dutta. He led the cart from

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to Molonga lane via Mission row with the help of Srish Pal and Khagendra Nath Das. Dutta was arrested on 11 October 1914 and imprisoned in a solitary cell of Presidency Jail, latter transferred to in

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Central Jail and imprisoned for 4 years. After completion of

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he was released and again took pivotal role of revolutionary activities of Bengal Volunteers group in between 1930 and 1934 in Dhaka,

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and Kolkata. He gave shelter to

Benoy Basu Benoy Krishna Basu ( bn, বিনয় কৃষ্ণ বসু ''Binôe Boshu'') or Benoy Basu or Benoy Bose (11 September 1908 – 13 December 1930) was an Indian revolutionary against British rule in India, who launched an attack on th ...

after assassination of Mr. Lowman, the Inspector General of Police. Dutta was popular and known as ''Mejda'' to the members of Bengal Volunteers. He was also involved with Writers Building attack by Benoy,

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and

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Dutta, Haridas 1890 births 1976 deaths Revolutionary movement for Indian independence Anti-British establishment revolutionaries from East Bengal People from Dhaka District Indian revolutionaries Prisoners and detainees of British India Indian independence activists from West Bengal