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Description Resident of v. Poragachcha, p.s. Krishnanagar, distt. Nadia, Bengal (now in West Bengal); s/o Motilal Biswas; completed his elementary education at Krishnanagar and admitted to Poragachcha School from where he studied up to the Entrance Examination. When he was a student of this School he took active part in the Swadeshi agitation at Poragachcha and its neighbourhood. In 1907 he left his studies and took up a job in 1910 at a swadeshi cloth store at Uttarpara, but left it for touring the different places of India. He was a staunch follower of Rash Behari Bose. Accompanied Rash Behari Bose to Dehradun in the disguise of his servant, Haridas. He was brought to Lahore by Rash Behari Bose in October 1912. At Lahore he took the job of a compounder at Popular Dispensary. He participated in the plot to throw a bomb on Lord Hardinge, the Viceroy of India. Known as the Delhi Conspiracy, it was carried out by him on 23 December 1912, when Lord Hardinge was passing through Chandni Chowk, Delhi, in a state procession marking the inauguration of Delhi as the capital of India. He was also accused of throwing a bomb in the Lawrence Garden, Lahore, on 17 May 1913, in which Ram Padarath, a peon, was killed. Arrested on 24 February 1914, and tried along with his three compatriots ñ Amir Chand, Balmokand and Avadh Bihari, he was sentenced to death. He died on the gallows in Ambala Central Jail on 11 May 1915 in the Delhi Conspiracy case.
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