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'''Mohammad Abdullah''', also called '''Abdulla''' or''' Abdullah''', was an Indian freedom fighter, who is known for killing [[John Paxton Norman]], Chief Justice in the High Court at Fort William in Bengal, in [[British India]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.19thcenturyphotos.com/Abdullah-126624.htm|title=Abdullah|access-date=June 3, 2021}}</ref><br />
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==Assassination of Norman==<br />
Justice Norman was accused of giving harsh sentence to freedom fighters. This was the main reason for the assassination.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.anindianmuslim.com/2020/08/great-freedom-fighters-of-india.html|title=Great Freedom Fighters of India: Revolutionaries who were hanged for the role in independence movement during the British rule|access-date=June 3, 2021}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kfwAEAAAQBAJ&dq=Abdullah%2C+the+murderer+of+Judge+John+Paxton+Norman+of+Calcutta%2C+1871&pg=PA75|title=A Genealogy of Terrorism: Colonial Law and the Origins of an Idea|last=McQuade|first=Joseph |year= 2020|publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=9781108896238|access-date=June 3, 2021}}</ref><br />
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In 1871, while Norman was coming down the steps of the [[Kolkata Town Hall]], Abdullah, attacked him and stabbed him to death. He died on 21 September 1871.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/8925420|title=THE MURDER OF CHIEF JUSTICE NORMAN IN CALCUTTA|newspaper=Mercury |date=2 January 1872 |access-date=June 3, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=axdBDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA79|title=Martyred but Not Tamed: The Politics of Resistance in the Middle East|last=Ram Narayan Kumar|date=6 November 2012|publisher=SAGE Publications |isbn=9788132117254|access-date=June 3, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OzZzFm4pLWQC&pg=PA562|title=Advance Study in the History of Modern India|last=Volume-2: 1803-1920|first=G. S. Chhabra|year=2005|publisher=Lotus Press |isbn=9788189093075|access-date=June 3, 2018}}</ref><br />
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==See also==<br />
*[[Sher Ali Afridi]]<br />
*[[Ashfaqulla Khan]]<br />
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