Dinesh Chandra Gupta

Name: Dinesh Chandra Gupta

DOB: 6 December 1911

Place ofhttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif Birth: Josholong in Munshiganj District (now in Bangladesh)

Place of Death: 7 July 1931

Introduction: While he was studying in Dhaka College, Dinesh joined Bengal Volunteers - a group organised by Subhas Chandra Bose in 1928, at the occasion of Calcutta session of the Indian National Congress. Soon the Bengal Volunteers transformed itself to a more active revolutionary association and planned to liquidate infamous British police officers.

The association targeted Col NS Simpson, the Inspector General of Prisons, who was infamous for the brutal oppression on the prisoners in the jails. The revolutionaries decided not only to murder him, but also to strike a terror in the British official circles by launching an attack on the Secretariat Building - the Writers' Building in the Dalhousie Square in Kolkata.

Contribution: However, Dinesh survived the near-fatal injury. He was convicted and the verdict of the trial was death by hanging for anti-government activities and murder. While awaiting execution, Dinesh wrote a number of letters from his prison cell on the heroism of the revolutionaries and his belief in the greatness of self-sacrifice.
Dinesh Chandra Gupta was only 19 when he was hanged on 7 July 1931 at Alipore Jail.