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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>'''Nutan Chandra Sinha''' was a Bangladeshi businessman who was killed in the [[Bangladesh Liberation war]] and is considered a martyr in Bangladesh.<ref>{{cite news |title=Critics of Bangladesh War Crimes Tribunal ignore the victims|url=http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/dec/11/praphulla-ranjan-sinha-critics-bangladesh-war-crim/|work=The Washington Times|access-date=25 September 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Hanged, Together|url=http://www.thedailystar.net/frontpage/two-hanged-together-176215|work=The Daily Star|date=22 November 2015|language=en|access-date=25 September 2022}}</ref><br />
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==Early life==<br />
Sinha was born on 1 December 1900 in Gohira, [[Raozan Upazila]], [[Chittagong District|Chittagong]], [[Bengal Presidency]], [[British Raj]], (now [[Bangladesh]]). He studied in Jagatpur Purnananda Asram.<ref name="ybv">{{cite web|last1=Kamal|first1=Mohammad Mostafa|title=Singha, Nutan Chandra|url=http://en.banglapedia.org/index.php?title=Singha,_Nutan_Chandra|website=Banglapedia|access-date=25 September 2017|language=en}}</ref><br />
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==Career==<br />
Sinha moved to [[Arakan Division|Arakan]] in [[British Burma]] with his father seeking economic opportunities. There he opened a grocery store and went on to expand into manufacturing. They manufactured soap and then pharmaceuticals. The father-son duo made a fortune in manufacturing in Arakan. He made a pilgrimage to the Bihar Kundadham Temple and after he returned he established Kundeswari Temple in Chittagong. He established the Sree Kundeswari Aushadhalaya Ayurvedic medicine factory in Gahira on 1946. He would establish Kundeswari Primary School and Kundeswari girls school in 1960; and Kundeswari Mahila College in 1970. He also built a post office.<ref name="ybv" /><br />
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==Death and legacy==<br />
Bangladesh Liberation war started with the launch of [[Operation Searchlight]] by Pakistan Army on 25 March 1971. After Pakistan Army attacked Chittagong University Singha hid and helped a number of faculty to escape to India. After [[Pakistan Army]] regained control of Chittagong, they and the paramilitary razakar attacked his residence on 13 April 1971 and killed him.<ref name="ybv" /> On 2013 Bangladesh Nationalist Party politician and former member of Razzakars [[Salahuddin Quader Chowdhury]] was sentenced to death by the International Crimes Tribunal for his role in the death of Singha.<ref>{{cite news |title=He executed father's order to kill Nutan|url=http://www.thedailystar.net/news/he-executed-fathers-order-to-kill-nutan|work=The Daily Star|date=2 October 2013|language=en|access-date=25 September 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Haidar|first1=Suhasini|title=The long healing of 1971|url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-opinion/the-long-healing-of-1971/article17881697.ece|work=The Hindu|date=8 April 2017|language=en-IN|access-date=25 September 2022}}</ref> Salauddin Quader Chowdhury was executed in 2016.<ref>{{cite news |title=‘SQ Chy burial not in Raozan’|url=http://archive.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/2015/nov/21/sq-chy-burial-not-raozan|work=Dhaka Tribune|access-date=25 September 2017|language=en}}</ref><br />
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