Sushil Kumar Dasgupta was born in Barisal, Undivided India, on 10 July 1906. During the course of the Indian Freedom Struggle, he was a member of the Yugantar revolutionary party and was caught in the Putia train robbery case. Sushil Kumar was imprisoned in the Medinipur Jail in the year 1929. He fled from the prison along with other revolutionaries - Sachin Kar Gupta and Dinesh Majumder. They were caught by the colonial police authority. Dinesh Majumder was hanged until death.
Sachin Kar Gupta was first sent to the Mandalay Jail, thereafter to the Cellular Jail. Against the brutal torture being faced in the prison cells, the prisoner inmates had gone on a hunger strike. Leaders of the freedom struggle, including Mahatma Gandhi, Rabindranath Tagore, and many others, wrote letters to the British regime against this torture. Eventually, all the prisoners of the cellular jail were brought back to the mainland between September 1937 and January 1938. Andaman’s cursed cellular prison was closed down.
For the Cellular Jail Hunger Strike of 1933, read: https://amritmahotsav.nic.in/district-reopsitory-detail.htm?1390
Sushil Kumar Dasgupta was shot dead while marching in a peace procession near the Park Circus crossing.