Jibendra Kumar Das

Jibendra Kumar Das (alias De), son of Bishambar Das was inhabitant of village Jaldi under Police Station Boalkhali in the district Chittagong of undivided Bengal (now in Bangladesh). He was an active participant in the Bathua Political Dacoity Case of 1934.

In the district of Chittagong and within the jurisdiction of Hathazari Police Station, there is a small village called Bathua. On 24 February 1934, in the village Bathua, in the house of Prasanna Kumar Malakar and Tipurrah Malakar, who were very rich persons and favourite to the British, a dacoity was committed by Jibendra Kumar Das and his group members in order to collect fund for revolutionary activities against the British. In this case Jibendra Kumar Das was accompanied by 1) Mokshada Ranjan Chakraborty alias Sibu alias Mokshada and 2) his brother Priyada Ranjan Chakraborty alias Priyada Nandan Chakraborty, 3) Mon Mohan Saha, 4) Nagendra Nath Dey, 5) Harihar Dutta, 6) Nirendra Lal Barua, 7) Mahesh Chandra Barua, 8) Saradindra Bhattacharjya, 9) Manoranjan Choudhury, 10) Kiriti Mazumdar, 11) Gagan Chandra De, 12) Arabinda De and 13) Manindra Chandra De. After their arrest, a test identification parade was held in the jail at Chittagong in which all the accused persons other than Kiriti Mazumdar (injured) had to take part.

At the time of his arrest his age was only 23 years. He was sentenced by the Special Tribunal at Chittagong on 27 August 1934 to 10 Years imprisonment from the Court of Special Tribunal, Chittagong, under section 395/59 of Indian Penal Code.