Ram Krishna Roy (9 January 1912 – 15 October 1934) was an Indian revolutionary and member of the

Bengal Volunteers Bengal Volunteers Corps was an underground revolutionary group against the British rule of India. The group was functional from its inception in 1928 to the Indian independence. The beginning Subhas Chandra Bose organised a group of volunteer ...

who carried out assassinations against British colonial officials in an attempt to secure Indian independence. He was hanged on 15 October 1934 for the charge of assassination of Magistrate Burge.

Family

Ram Krishna Roy was born in Chirimarsai near Dwariband (Paschim Medinipur) in 1911. His father’s name was Kenaram Roy. His mother’s name was Bhabatarini Devi. He got admitted in Midnapur Town School in 1922 as a class III student. He joined Bengal Volunteers, a revolutionary organisation of

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. He also worked with Birendranath Sasmal in 1926 General election. From 1928 he worked with Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose.

Revolutionary activities

After the murder of Magistrate Paddy and Robert Douglas no British officer was ready to take the charge of Midnapore District. Bernard E J Burge, a District Magistrate was posted in

Midnapore district Midnapore district was a district of the state of West Bengal, India. This district was bifurcated on 1 January 2002 into the Purba Medinipur district and the Paschim Medinipur district. On 4 April 2017, the Jhargram subdivision of Paschim Medi ...

. The members of the Bengal volunteers i.e. Ramkrishna Roy, Brajakishore Chakraborty,Prabhanshu Sekhar Pal, Kamakhya Charan Ghosh, Sonatan Roy, Nanda Dulal Singh, Sukumar Sen Gupta, Bijoy Krishna Ghose, Purnananda Sanyal, Manindra Nath Choudhury, Saroj Ranjan Das Kanungo, Santi Gopal Sen, Sailesh Chandra Ghose, Anath Bondhu Panja and Mrigendra Dutta etc. decided to assassinate him. Anathbandhu Panja, Ramkrishna Roy, Brajakishore Chakraborty, Nirmal Jiban Ghosh and Mrigen Dutt planned to shot him dead while Burge was playing a football match ( Bradley-Birt football tournament) named by

Francis Bradley Bradley-Birt Francis Bradley Bradley-Birt, ICS, FRGS (25 June 1874 – 11 June 1963) was a British diplomat and writer. Biography He began his career as an English member of the Indian Civil Service. His duty in India began in 1896, and he started as an ass ...

at the police grounds of

Midnapore Medinipur or Midnapore (Pron: med̪iːniːpur) is a city known for its history in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is the headquarters of the West Medinipur district. It is situated on the banks of the Kangsabati River (variously known as '' ...

. Burge, during the half time of the football match in Police parade ground was killed on 2 September 1933 by them. Anathbandhu was killed instantly by the body guard of the DM and Mrigen Dutta died in the hospital on the next day. Anathbandhu Panja and Mrigen Dutta was acquitted on murder charge of the district magistrate of Midnapore.

Death

He was hanged on 15 October 1934 for the charge of assassination of Magistrate Burge.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Roy , Ram Krishna 1912 births 1934 deaths Executed revolutionaries Revolutionary movement for Indian independence Indian nationalism Indian people convicted of murder Indian revolutionaries Executed Indian people 20th-century executions by the United Kingdom People executed by British India by hanging People from Paschim Medinipur district Indian independence activists from West Bengal