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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;| predecessor1 = [[Sushital Ray Chowdhury]]&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;| predecessor1 = [[Sushital Ray Chowdhury]]&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;| spouse       = Bela Dutta&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;| spouse       = Bela Dutta&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;| children     = Siraj Dutta&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Kunal Dutta&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;| children     = Siraj Dutta&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Kunal Dutta&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;| party        = [[Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist)]]  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;| party        = [[Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist)]]  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;| otherparty   = [[Communist Party of India]] (&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;1949-1964&lt;/del&gt;)&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;[[Communist Party of India (Marxist)]] (&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;1964-1967&lt;/del&gt;)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;| otherparty   = [[Communist Party of India]] (&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;1949–1964&lt;/ins&gt;)&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;[[Communist Party of India (Marxist)]] (&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;1964–1967&lt;/ins&gt;)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;| alma_mater   = [[University of Calcutta]]&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;| alma_mater   = [[University of Calcutta]]&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;[[Scottish Church College]]&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;[[Scottish Church College]]&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;Saroj Dutta&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039; (March 13, 1914 – August 5, 1971) popularly known comrade SD, was an Indian communist intellectual and poet, active in the [[Naxalite]] movement in [[West Bengal]] in the 1960s. He was the first West Bengal state secretary of [[Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist)]] (CPI(ML)). He also remained editor-in-chief of the &amp;#039;&amp;#039;[[Amrita Bazar Patrika]]&amp;#039;&amp;#039; during the 1940s.&amp;lt;ref name=prakash&amp;gt;{{cite book | title = The Naxalite Movement in India | author = Prakash Singh | publisher = Rupa Publications | year = 2006 | isbn = 8171672949}}Appendix B&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;Saroj Dutta&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039; (March 13, 1914 – August 5, 1971) popularly known comrade SD, was an Indian communist intellectual and poet, active in the [[Naxalite]] movement in [[West Bengal]] in the 1960s. He was the first West Bengal state secretary of [[Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist)]] (CPI(ML)). He also remained editor-in-chief of the &amp;#039;&amp;#039;[[Amrita Bazar Patrika]]&amp;#039;&amp;#039; during the 1940s.&amp;lt;ref name=prakash&amp;gt;{{cite book | title = The Naxalite Movement in India | author = Prakash Singh | publisher = Rupa Publications | year = 2006 | isbn = 8171672949}}Appendix B&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;It is commonly thought that he was killed in a police encounter on August 5, 1971, but till now he was missing in police and state records.&amp;lt;ref name=mint&amp;gt;{{cite web|title = The remains of Naxalbari|publisher=Livemint | url = http://www.livemint.com/Leisure/qILQtLkiUnpvkRP9v3aV3O/The-remains-of-Naxalbari.html |author=Shamanth Rao|date=March 10, 2011| access-date = 2014-02-26 }}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;Ghosh1993&quot;/&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;It is commonly thought that he was killed in a &lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;[[&lt;/ins&gt;police encounter&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;]] &lt;/ins&gt;on August 5, 1971, but till now he was missing in police and state records.&amp;lt;ref name=mint&amp;gt;{{cite web|title = The remains of Naxalbari|publisher=Livemint | url = http://www.livemint.com/Leisure/qILQtLkiUnpvkRP9v3aV3O/The-remains-of-Naxalbari.html |author=Shamanth Rao|date=March 10, 2011| access-date = 2014-02-26 }}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;Ghosh1993&quot;/&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;==Early life and education==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;==Early life and education==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;He was born in a land-owning family in [[Jessore (city)|Jessore]] in [[East Bengal]], (now in Bangladesh) on 13 March 1914. He studied at the Victoria Collegiate School in Narail, and later graduated from the [[Scottish Church College]] in Calcutta in 1936. He subsequently earned his &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;MA In &lt;/del&gt;[[English Literature]] 1938 from the [[University of Calcutta]].&amp;lt;ref name=Saroj_Dutta&amp;gt;&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;[&lt;/del&gt;http://www.cpiml.org/liberation/year_2014/mar_2014/saroj_dutta.html Tribute to Saroj Dutta&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;]&lt;/del&gt;&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;He was born in a land-owning family in [[Jessore (city)|Jessore]] in [[East Bengal]], (now in Bangladesh) on 13 March 1914. He studied at the Victoria Collegiate School in &lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;[[Narail District|&lt;/ins&gt;Narail&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;]]&lt;/ins&gt;, and later graduated from the [[Scottish Church College]] in Calcutta in 1936. He subsequently earned his &lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;M.A in &lt;/ins&gt;[[English Literature]] 1938 from the [[University of Calcutta]].&amp;lt;ref name=Saroj_Dutta&amp;gt;&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;{{Cite web |url=&lt;/ins&gt;http://www.cpiml.org/liberation/year_2014/mar_2014/saroj_dutta.html &lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;|title=&lt;/ins&gt;Tribute to Saroj Dutta &lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;|access-date=31 March 2014 |archive-date=23 September 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923210910/http://www.cpiml.org/liberation/year_2014/mar_2014/saroj_dutta.html |url-status=dead }}&lt;/ins&gt;&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;==Career==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;==Career==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; class=&quot;diff-lineno&quot; id=&quot;mw-diff-left-l40&quot;&gt;Line 40:&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; class=&quot;diff-lineno&quot;&gt;Line 40:&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;==Death==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;==Death==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;Police Arrested Dutta from his friend Debiprasad Chattapadhyaya&#039;s home on the night of August 4–5, 1971. It is stated that he was killed by the [[Kolkata Police]] on the [[Aryan Club]] ground in the [[Maidan (Kolkata)|Kolkata Maidan]] that very morning.&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;dnaindia&quot;&amp;gt;{{cite web|url=http://www.dnaindia.com/analysis/main-article-countering-the-maoists-1408542|title=Countering the Maoists|work=DNA|date=12 July 2010|location=India|access-date=2014-02-24}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; It is also said that the movie star [[Uttam Kumar]] witnessed the shooting while on a morning walk, but talked about it much later when drunk; this is the storyline of the 1994 Bengali-language movie &#039;&#039;[[Sopan (film)|Sopan]]&#039;&#039;.&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;Ghosh1993&quot;&amp;gt;{{cite book|author=Suniti Kumar Ghosh|title=The Historic Turning-point: A Liberation Anthology|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6l3lAAAAMAAJ|year=1993|page=135|publisher=S.K. Ghosh}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;indiancine&quot;&amp;gt;{{cite web|url=https://wiki.indiancine.ma/wiki/Sopan|title=Sopan – Indiancine.ma Wiki|publisher=wiki.indiancine.ma|access-date=2014-02-24}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; Bengali writer [[Dibyendu Palit]] also portrayed the incident in his novel &#039;&#039;Sahajoddha&#039;&#039;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;Police Arrested Dutta from his friend Debiprasad Chattapadhyaya&#039;s home on the night of August 4–5, 1971. It is stated that he was killed by the [[Kolkata Police]] on the [[Aryan Club]] ground in the [[Maidan (Kolkata)|Kolkata Maidan]] that very morning.&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;dnaindia&quot;&amp;gt;{{cite web|url=http://www.dnaindia.com/analysis/main-article-countering-the-maoists-1408542|title=Countering the Maoists|work=DNA|date=12 July 2010|location=India|access-date=2014-02-24}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; It is also said that the movie star [[Uttam Kumar]] witnessed the shooting while on a morning walk, but talked about it much later when drunk; this is the storyline of the 1994 Bengali-language movie &#039;&#039;[[Sopan (film)|Sopan]]&#039;&#039;.&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;Ghosh1993&quot;&amp;gt;{{cite book|author=Suniti Kumar Ghosh|title=The Historic Turning-point: A Liberation Anthology|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6l3lAAAAMAAJ|year=1993|page=135|publisher=S.K. Ghosh}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;indiancine&quot;&amp;gt;{{cite web|url=https://wiki.indiancine.ma/wiki/Sopan|title=Sopan – Indiancine.ma Wiki|publisher=wiki.indiancine.ma|access-date=2014-02-24&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;|archive-date=15 September 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180915192224/https://wiki.indiancine.ma/wiki/Sopan|url-status=dead&lt;/ins&gt;}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; Bengali writer [[Dibyendu Palit]] also portrayed the incident in his novel &#039;&#039;Sahajoddha&#039;&#039;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;In 1977, after the CPI(M) returned to power with a Left-front majority, many Naxalite sympathisers&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;marxists&quot;&amp;gt;{{cite web|url=http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mishra/1996/04/x01.htm|title=Come, let us take the country along a new road!|publisher=marxists.org|access-date=2014-02-24}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; signed on a petition seeking an investigation of Saroj Dutta&#039;s death. The petition was given to the chief minister [[Jyoti Basu]]. However, no investigation has ever been held.&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;frontierweekly&quot;&amp;gt;{{cite web|url=http://www.frontierweekly.com/articles/vol-45/45-14-17/45-14-17-State%20Violence,%20Civil%20Liberties%20and%20Politics.html|title=Frontier articles on Society &amp;amp; Politics|publisher=frontierweekly.com|access-date=2014-02-24}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;In 1977, after the CPI(M) returned to power with a Left-front majority, many Naxalite sympathisers&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;marxists&quot;&amp;gt;{{cite web|url=http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mishra/1996/04/x01.htm|title=Come, let us take the country along a new road!|publisher=marxists.org|access-date=2014-02-24}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; signed on a petition seeking an investigation of Saroj Dutta&#039;s death. The petition was given to the chief minister [[Jyoti Basu]]. However, no investigation has ever been held.&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;frontierweekly&quot;&amp;gt;{{cite web|url=http://www.frontierweekly.com/articles/vol-45/45-14-17/45-14-17-State%20Violence,%20Civil%20Liberties%20and%20Politics.html|title=Frontier articles on Society &amp;amp; Politics|publisher=frontierweekly.com|access-date=2014-02-24&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;|archive-date=28 February 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140228034524/http://www.frontierweekly.com/articles/vol-45/45-14-17/45-14-17-State%20Violence,%20Civil%20Liberties%20and%20Politics.html|url-status=dead&lt;/ins&gt;}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;His comrade, Charu Majumdar died in police custody a year later.&amp;lt;ref name=mint/&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;His comrade, Charu Majumdar died in police custody a year later.&amp;lt;ref name=mint/&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;== Film ==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;== Film ==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;A feature-length documentary film, &#039;&#039;S.D. :Saroj Dutta and His Times&#039;&#039;, directed by Kasturi Basu and Mitali Biswas in 2018, featured Dutta&#039;s journey as a poet, journalist, translator, ideologue and revolutionary.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{Cite web|last=Ramnath|first=Nandini|title=A new documentary revisits the life of Bengali poet Saroj Dutta and the ferment of Naxalbari|url=https://scroll.in/reel/886949/meet-the-urban-naxal-of-his-times-in-documentary-on-bengali-poet-and-journalist-saroj-dutta|access-date=2022-01-13|website=Scroll.in|language=en-US}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; The film contains the only on-camera interviews of two eyewitnesses - Debiprasad Chattopadhyay and Manjusha Chattopadhyay - of Saroj Dutta&#039;s abduction and disappearance by the Kolkata Police.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{Cite web|title=S.D. : SAROJ DUTTA AND HIS TIMES* – Film South Asia|url=https://www.filmsouthasia.org/film/s-d-saroj-dutta-and-his-times/|access-date=2022-01-13|language=en-US}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;A feature-length documentary film, &#039;&#039;S.D. :Saroj Dutta and His Times&#039;&#039;, directed by Kasturi Basu and Mitali Biswas in 2018, featured Dutta&#039;s journey as a poet, journalist, translator, ideologue and revolutionary.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{Cite web|last=Ramnath|first=Nandini|title=A new documentary revisits the life of Bengali poet Saroj Dutta and the ferment of Naxalbari|url=https://scroll.in/reel/886949/meet-the-urban-naxal-of-his-times-in-documentary-on-bengali-poet-and-journalist-saroj-dutta|access-date=2022-01-13|website=Scroll.in&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;|date=19 July 2018 &lt;/ins&gt;|language=en-US}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; The film contains the only on-camera interviews of two eyewitnesses - Debiprasad Chattopadhyay and Manjusha Chattopadhyay - of Saroj Dutta&#039;s abduction and disappearance by the Kolkata Police.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{Cite web|title=S.D. : SAROJ DUTTA AND HIS TIMES* – Film South Asia|url=https://www.filmsouthasia.org/film/s-d-saroj-dutta-and-his-times/|access-date=2022-01-13|language=en-US&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;|archive-date=13 January 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220113154611/https://www.filmsouthasia.org/film/s-d-saroj-dutta-and-his-times/|url-status=dead&lt;/ins&gt;}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;==External links==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;==External links==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; class=&quot;diff-lineno&quot; id=&quot;mw-diff-left-l64&quot;&gt;Line 64:&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; class=&quot;diff-lineno&quot;&gt;Line 64:&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;[[Category:Bengali Hindus]]&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;[[Category:Bengali Hindus]]&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;[[Category:Bengali-language writers]]&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;[[Category:Bengali-language writers]]&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;[[Category:Bengali poets]]&lt;/del&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; class=&quot;diff-side-added&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;[[Category:20th-century Bengalis]]&lt;/del&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; class=&quot;diff-side-added&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;[[Category:20th-century Bengali poets]]&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;[[Category:20th-century Bengali poets]]&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;[[Category:Indian male writers]]&lt;/del&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; class=&quot;diff-side-added&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;[[Category:Indian male poets]]&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;[[Category:Indian male poets]]&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;[[Category:Indian poets]]&lt;/del&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; class=&quot;diff-side-added&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;[[Category:Indian journalists]]&lt;/del&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; class=&quot;diff-side-added&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;[[Category:Indian male journalists]]&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;[[Category:Indian male journalists]]&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;[[Category:Indian Marxist writers]]&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;[[Category:Indian Marxist writers]]&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; class=&quot;diff-lineno&quot; id=&quot;mw-diff-left-l76&quot;&gt;Line 76:&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; class=&quot;diff-lineno&quot;&gt;Line 71:&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;[[Category:20th-century Indian poets]]&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;[[Category:20th-century Indian poets]]&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;[[Category:20th-century Indian male writers]]&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;[[Category:20th-century Indian male writers]]&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;[[Category:20th-century Indian writers]]&lt;/del&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; class=&quot;diff-side-added&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;[[Category:20th-century Indian journalists]]&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;[[Category:20th-century Indian journalists]]&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;[[Category:&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;Naxalite–Maoist insurgency&lt;/del&gt;]]&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;[[Category:&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;Naxalites&lt;/ins&gt;]]&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;[[Category:Indian newspaper editors]]&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;[[Category:Indian newspaper editors]]&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;[[Category:People from Jessore District]]&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;[[Category:People from Jessore District]]&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;[[Category:Extrajudicial killings]]&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;[[Category:Extrajudicial killings &lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;in India&lt;/ins&gt;]]&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;[[Category:People shot dead by law enforcement officers in India]]&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;[[Category:People shot dead by law enforcement officers in India]]&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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| name = Saroj Dutta&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;&amp;lt;big&amp;gt;{{lang|bn|সরোজ দত্ত}}&amp;lt;/big&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
| image = Image:Kolkata Saroj Dutta statue.jpg&lt;br /&gt;
| caption = Bust of Saroj Dutta at [[Esplanade, Kolkata]].&lt;br /&gt;
| birth_date = 13 March 1914&lt;br /&gt;
|birth_place  = [[Jessore (city)|Jessore]], [[East Bengal]]&lt;br /&gt;
| death_date    = 5 August 1971 (aged 57)&lt;br /&gt;
|death_place  = [[South Calcutta]], [[West Bengal]]&lt;br /&gt;
| nationality = Indian&lt;br /&gt;
| spouse = Bela Dutta &lt;br /&gt;
| children = Kunal Dutta&lt;br /&gt;
| party = [[Communist Party of India]] (1949-1964)&lt;br /&gt;
[[Communist Party of India (Marxist)]] (1964-1967)&lt;br /&gt;
[[Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist)]] (1969-1971)&lt;br /&gt;
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| alma_mater = [[University of Calcutta]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Scottish Church College]]&lt;br /&gt;
| profession = Politician, [[Poet]], [[Journalist]]&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;Saroj Dutta&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039; (March 13, 1914 – August 5, 1971) (Comrade SD) was an Indian communist intellectual and poet, active in the extremist [[Naxalite]] movement in [[West Bengal]] in the 1960s. He also remained editor-in-chief of the &amp;#039;&amp;#039;[[Amrita Bazar Patrika]]&amp;#039;&amp;#039; during the 1940s.&amp;lt;ref name=prakash&amp;gt;{{cite book | title =  The Naxalite Movement in India | author =      Prakash Singh | publisher =   Rupa Publications | year = 2006 | isbn = 8171672949}}Appendix B&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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It is commonly thought that he was killed in a police encounter on August 5, 1971 but till now he was missing in police and state records&amp;lt;ref name=mint&amp;gt;{{cite web|title = The remains of Naxalbari|publisher=Livemint | url = http://www.livemint.com/Leisure/qILQtLkiUnpvkRP9v3aV3O/The-remains-of-Naxalbari.html |author=Shamanth Rao|date=March 10, 2011| access-date = 2014-02-26 }}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;Ghosh1993&amp;quot;/&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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==Early life and education==&lt;br /&gt;
He was born in a land-owning family in [[Jessore (city)|Jessore]] in [[East Bengal]], (now in Bangladesh) on 13 March 1914. He studied at the Victoria Collegiate School in Narail, and later graduated from the [[Scottish Church College]] in Calcutta in 1936. He subsequently earned his MA In [[English Literature]] 1938 from the [[University of Calcutta]].&amp;lt;ref name=Saroj_Dutta&amp;gt;[http://www.cpiml.org/liberation/year_2014/mar_2014/saroj_dutta.html Tribute to Saroj Dutta]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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==Career==&lt;br /&gt;
Dutta joined the &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Amrit Bazar Patrika&amp;#039;&amp;#039; in early 1940s, after completing his studies, however he was fired in 1949 for joining violent activities as a member of the [[Communist Party of India]]. In 1962, after the [[Sino-Indian War]] he was briefly arrested for having pro-China ([[Maoist]]) sympathies. In 1964 he joined the [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)]], CPI(M), and was an editor of their paper, &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Swadhinata&amp;#039;&amp;#039;, along with [[Sushital Ray Chowdhary]]. He was among the many radicals who were disillusioned when the CPI(M) decided to join electoral politics in the run-up to the [[1967 Indian general election|1967 elections]].&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{cite book|title=State and politics in India|last=Kohli|first=Atul|publisher=OUP India|year=1998|isbn=0195647653|editor=Chatterjee|editor-first=Partha|editor-link=Partha Chatterjee (scholar)|page=348|chapter=From breakdown to order: West Bengal|author-link=Atul Kohli}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Attracted to a more radical form of revolutionary [[Marxism]], he along with Sushital Ray Chowdhury and some other Calcutta intellectuals, supported the [[Charu Majumdar]]-led [[Naxalbari uprising]] in May 1967. In April 1969, he was also one of the founder members of [[Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist)]], CPI (ML), an organisation which was outlawed a year later&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
{{cite news | title= History of Naxalism | agency= [[Press Trust of India|PTI]] | work= [[Hindustan Times]] | url= http://www.hindustantimes.com/news-feed/nm2/history-of-naxalism/article1-6545.aspx | date= December 15, 2005 | url-status= dead | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20130722091758/http://www.hindustantimes.com/News-Feed/NM2/History-of-Naxalism/Article1-6545.aspx | archive-date= 22 July 2013 | df= dmy-all }}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; for conducting armed [[guerrilla warfare]] targeted at the landlords and the police.&lt;br /&gt;
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Saroj Datta, along with [[Charu Majumdar]], became one of the most wanted men in Bengal.&lt;br /&gt;
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==Death==&lt;br /&gt;
Police Arrested Dutta from his friend Debiprasad Chattapadhyaya&amp;#039;s home on the night of August 4–5, 1971. It is stated that he was killed by the [[Kolkata Police]] on the [[Aryan Club]] grounds in the [[Maidan (Kolkata)]] that very morning.&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;dnaindia&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{cite web|url=http://www.dnaindia.com/analysis/main-article-countering-the-maoists-1408542|title=Countering the Maoists|work=DNA|date=12 July 2010|location=India|access-date=2014-02-24}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;  It is also said that the movie star [[Uttam Kumar]] witnessed the shooting while on a morning walk, but talked about it much later when drunk; this is the storyline of the 1994 Bengali-language movie &amp;#039;&amp;#039;[[Sopan (film)|Sopan]]&amp;#039;&amp;#039;.&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;Ghosh1993&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{cite book|author=Suniti Kumar Ghosh|title=The Historic Turning-point: A Liberation Anthology|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6l3lAAAAMAAJ|year=1993|page=135|publisher=S.K. Ghosh}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;indiancine&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{cite web|url=https://wiki.indiancine.ma/wiki/Sopan|title=Sopan – Indiancine.ma Wiki|publisher=wiki.indiancine.ma|access-date=2014-02-24}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; Bengali writer Dibyandu Palit also portrayed the incident in his novel &amp;#039;Sahajoddha&amp;#039;.&lt;br /&gt;
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In 1977, after the CPI(M) returned to power with a Left-front majority, many Naxalite sympathisers&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;marxists&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{cite web|url=http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mishra/1996/04/x01.htm|title=Come, let us take the country along a new road!|publisher=marxists.org|access-date=2014-02-24}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; signed on a petition seeking an investigation of Saroj Dutta&amp;#039;s death. The petition was given to the chief minister [[Jyoti Basu]]. However, no investigation has ever been held.&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;frontierweekly&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{cite web|url=http://www.frontierweekly.com/articles/vol-45/45-14-17/45-14-17-State%20Violence,%20Civil%20Liberties%20and%20Politics.html|title=Frontier articles on Society &amp;amp; Politics|publisher=frontierweekly.com|access-date=2014-02-24}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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His comrade, Charu Majumdar died in police custody a year later.&amp;lt;ref name=mint/&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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== Film ==&lt;br /&gt;
A feature-length documentary film, S.D. : Saroj Dutta and His Times, directed by Kasturi Basu and Mitali Biswas in 2018, featured Saroj Dutta&amp;#039;s journey as a poet, journalist, translator, ideologue and revolutionary. The film contains the only on-camera interviews of two eyewitnesses - Debiprasad Chattopadhyay and Manjusha Chattopadhyay - of Saroj Dutta&amp;#039;s abduction and disappearance by the Kolkata Police.&lt;br /&gt;
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