Batukeshwar Dutt

Batukeshwar Dutt (1910 – 1965), alias Battu, was a revolutionary freedom fighter of India. He was son of Gosta Bihari Dutt, Oari village, Khanda, Burdwan, now in West Bengal. He was a member of Hindusthan Socialist Republican Army and a close friend of Chandrasekhar Azad and Bhagat Singh. He was working in Kanpur for the party. He Knew 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". He was arrested in the Central Assembly bomb case, and subsequently sentenced on 12th June 1929 to life imprisonment from the court of session Judge of Delhi under section 307 Indian Penal Code and under Explosive Act. He was deported to the Cellular Jail in Andamans. He participated in two hunger strikes in Cellular Jail. He was repatriated in 1937, and ultimately released from Bankipur jail in the year 1938.

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