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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description|Bengali activist for the Indian independence (1904–1926)}}<br />
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| name = Pramod Ranjan Choudhury<br />
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| birth_date = {{birth year|1904}}<br />
| birth_place = Kelishahar, [[Chittagong District|Chittagong]], [[British India]]<br />
| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1926|09|28|1904}}<br />
| death_place = [[Alipore Jail]], [[Kolkata]]<br />
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| occupation = Bengali [[Indian independence movement]] activist<br />
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| known_for = [[Revolutionary]]<br />
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| father = Ishan Chandra Choudhury<br />
| criminal_charge = [[Assassination]] of Bhupen Chatterjee<br />
| criminal_penalty = [[Capital punishment]]<br />
| criminal_status = Executed<br />
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'''Pramod Ranjan Choudhury''' (1904 – 28 September 1926) was a Bengali activist for the [[Indian independence movement]] who was hanged for the [[assassination]] of police officer Bhupen Chatterjee.<br />
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==Early life==<br />
Pramod Ranjan was born at Kelishahar, [[Chittagong District]] in [[British India]]. His father's name was Ishan Chandra Choudhury.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|title=Sansad Bangali Charitavidhan (Bengali)|last=Vol - I|first=Subodh S. Sengupta & Anjali Basu|publisher=Sahitya Sansad|year=2002|isbn=81-85626-65-0|location=Kolkata|pages=311}}</ref><br />
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==Revolutionary activities==<br />
Choudhury joined the [[Anushilan Samiti]] group at [[Chittagong|Chattogram]]. In 1921 he took part in the [[non-cooperation movement]]. He was arrested at [[Dakshineswar]] for his connections with the Dakshineswar Conspiracy Case and sent to prison.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7jaaDQAAQBAJ&q=ananta+hari+mitra&pg=PT117|title=Indias Struggle Quarter of Century 1921 to 1946|last=Part I|first=Arun Chandra Guha|isbn=9788123022741|access-date=26 November 2017}}</ref> On 28 May 1926 Choudhury and other fellow revolutionary inmates killed Bhupen Chatterjee with an iron rod. Chatterjee was a [[Deputy superintendent of police|deputy superintendent]] of the Police Intelligence Branch who spied on inmates and tried to destroy the mental strength of political prisoners.<ref name=":0" /><br />
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==Death==<br />
The trial of the killers began on 15 June 1926 and a sentence of [[capital punishment]] was handed down on 21 June. Choudhury and [[Anantahari Mitra]] were hanged on 28 September 1926 in the [[Alipore Jail|Alipore Central Jail]] in [[Kolkata]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1UggIjEuBaAC&q=pramod+ranjan+choudhury&pg=PT64|title=Indian Revolutionaries A Comprehensive Study, 1757-1961|last=Volume 1|first=Śrīkr̥shṇa Sarala|date=January 1999|isbn=9788187100164|access-date=26 November 2017}}</ref><ref name=":1" /><br />
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