Rameshchndra Chattopadhyay (?) was transmigrated to Andaman at the age of fifteen and suffered imprisonment in the Cellular Jail for eighteen years. His early life is shrouded in obscurity with no information regarding his parentage and birthplace.
A student of Barishal’s Banipith School, he was indoctrinated into revolutionary nationalism by his headmaster, Rasaranjan Sen, a leading educationist of the district. Many of his students in their later life thus ended up as revolutionaries; also Satindra Nath Sen, a leading revolutionary of the Barisal district, and Rasaranjan Sen’s student in a different school.
On 14 March 1929, around seven o’clock in the evening, Jyotishchandra Banerjee, the notorious Police Inspector of the Barisal Town PS, was returning from his duties riding a bicycle. In the dim light of the lane behind the Sadar Girls School, a frail little boy was strolling carelessly to nobody’s notice; the moment the inspector pedaled closer to him, Rameshchandra pushed him to the ground and struck the knife deep into his chest leaving him dead on the spot.
Rameshchandra was caught red-handed by the crowd, taken into the police station, and mercilessly beaten. In 1930, the trial court at first gave him the death sentence; but later considering his age he was transmigrated for life.
Source: WBSA, IB, A-162.27: ‘Recollection by Shantisudha Ghosh’ reproduced in Hiralal Dasgupta, Swadhinata Sangrame Barishal, Vol. I, 1972, in Bengali; Shubhendu Majumdar, Agniyuger Abhidhan, 2022, in Bengali.