Unsung Heroes Detail

Dwijendra Nath Talpatra, son of Jogesh Chandra Talpatra hailed from Bagmara, Rajshahi. He was a student of Vidyasagar College. He was living in Room No. 58 at 221, Dharmahatta Street. He was actively involved in the Inter-Provincial Conspiracy case of 1936. In September 1932, he went to Birampur taking a large number of Swadhin Bharat leaflets for distribution in the locality. Further owing to his anti-British activities, he was arrested and sentenced on 1 May 1935 and 1 August 1936 to a total of 8 years imprisonment under Section 121 IPC and 52 Prison Act. He was allotted Prison No. 187 in Midnapore Central Jail, later deported to Cellular Jail in the Andaman Islands in August 1936, where he was given Permanent Incarceration No. 382. He was repatriated in 1937.