Manindra Chandra Dey (sometimes spelled as Manen Chandra Dey or Manindra Chandra De), son of Kamini Kumar Dey was inhabitant of Fateabad under Police Station Hathazari in Chittagong of undivided Bengal (now in Bangladesh). He took active part 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 Manindra Chandra Dey and his group members in order to collect fund for revolutionary activities against the British. Manindra worked in Prasanna’s house for a few months. In this case Manindra Chandra De was accompanied by 1) Priyada Ranjan Chakraborty and 2) Jibendra Kumar Das, 3) Harihar Dutta, 4) Nagendra Nath Dey, 5) Gagan Chandra Dey, 6) Nirendra Lal Barua, 7) Mahesh Chandra Barua, 8) Saradindra Bhattacharjya, 9) Mokshada Ranjan Chakraborty, 10) Mon Mohan Saha, 11) Arvind Dey, 12) Manoranjan Chaudhury and 13) Kiriti Mazumdar. 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 30 years. He was sentenced by the Special Tribunal at Chittagong on 27 August 1934 to life imprisonment from the Court of Special Tribunal, Chittagong, under section 395 of Indian Penal Code. All the said 14 accused in the case were deported to Cellular Jail in Andaman Islands. Manindra Chandra Dey was repatriated during 1937-38.