Mokshada Ranjan Chakrabarty

Mokshada Ranjan Chakraborty alias Sibu alias Mokshada son of Durga Charan Chakraborty was an inhabitant of Hathazari in 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 favourites to the British, a dacoity was committed by Mokshada Ranjan Chakraborty and his group members in order to collect fund for revolutionary activities against the British. In this case, Mokshada was accompanied by 1) his brother Priyada Ranjan Chakraborty and 2) Jibendra Kumar Das, 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 28 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 of the Indian Penal Code. Mokshada Ranjan Chakraborty, Priyada Ranjan Chakraborty, Jibendra Kumar Das, Saradindra Bhattacharjya, Mahesh Chandra Barua, Nirendra Lal Barua, Mahesh Chandra Barua, Nagendra Nath Dey, Manoranjan Chaudhury, Arvind Dey, Harihar Dutta, Mon Mohan Saha, and other revolutionaries of the case were deported to Cellular Jail in Andaman Islands. Mokshada was given Permanent Incarceration No. 284. He was repatriated in 1937-38.