Srish Chandra Mitra (death: 1915?) or Habu was a

Bengali Bengali or Bengalee, or Bengalese may refer to: *something of, from, or related to Bengal, a large region in South Asia * Bengalis, an ethnic and linguistic group of the region * Bengali language, the language they speak ** Bengali alphabet, the w ...

revolutionary and active member of

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Revolutionary activities

Mitra was born in Raspur village,

Amta Amta is a census town in Amta I CD Block in Uluberia subdivision of Howrah district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It's located about 40 km southwest of Kolkata. Geography Amta is located at . Demographics As per 2011 Census of Indi ...

Howrah district Howrah district (, ) is a district of the West Bengal state in eastern India. Howrah district is one of the highly urbanized area of West Bengal. It has thousands of years of rich heritage in the form of the great Bengali kingdom of Bhurshut. ...

. He was popularly known as Habu Mitra. He joined in

Anushilan Samiti () was an Indian fitness club, which was actually used as an underground society for anti-British revolutionaries. In the first quarter of the 20th century it supported revolutionary violence as the means for ending British rule in India. The ...

and entered in British gun maker Rodda Company as an employee. Mitra was aware of a major consignment of arms and ammunition being shipped to the Company in August 1914 and planned to loot the arms for revolutionaries. On 26 August, he headed to the Customs house in

Kolkata Kolkata, also known as Calcutta ( its official name until 2001), is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of West Bengal. It lies on the eastern bank of the Hooghly River, west of the border with Bangladesh. It is the primary ...

to receive the shipment on behalf of Rodda & Co. With him were seven Bullock carts. Haridas Dutta, a member of

Jugantar Jugantar or Yugantar ( ''Jugantor''; lit. ''New Era'' or ''Transition of an Epoch'') was one of the two main secret revolutionary trends operating in Bengal for Indian independence. This association, like Anushilan Samiti, started in the g ...

was dressed as the cart-driver for one of the carts Mitra took with him. Total of 202 boxes received by Mitra,

Srishh Pal Srish Pal (c. 1887 – 13 April 1939) was a Bengali revolutionary, born in Mulbarga, Dacca, British India. His full name was Shrish Chandra Pal. He was drawn to revolutionary politics in 1905 under the guidance of Hemchandra Ghosh. He joined the ...

and Khagendra Nath Das assisted him to reach those ammunition towards Mononga Lane via Mission row. British police described that Mitra was the mastermind of the Rodda company arms heist. '' The Statesman'', in its edition on 30 August 1914 described the heist as 'The greatest daylight robbery'.

Death

He remained underground as per the instruction of the Anushilan Samiti and went to

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to avoid arrest. Possibly in 1915 Mitra decided to go to

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by road that passing through the jungles but could not succeed to cross the border and shot dead by frontier guards.

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