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| birth_place = [[Ambegaon taluka]], [[Pune district]], [[Bombay Presidency]]

'''Babu Genu Said''' (1 January 1908 – 12 December 1930) was a mill-worker in [[Bombay Presidency|Bombay]] who had led protests against the illegal trade profit of the British goods and clothes by culminating Indian textile market.

Babu Genu Said was born in a poor farmer family in Mahalunge Padwal; he used to work in one of the cotton mills in [[Bombay]]. He was an active participant in the protests, organized by Indian independence activists, against the import of foreign-made cloth.

On 12 December 1930, a cloth merchant named George Frazier of [[Manchester]] was moving loads of foreign-made cloth from his shop in old Hanuman galli in the [[Fort (Mumbai precinct)|Fort]] region to Mumbai Port. He was given police protection per his request. The activists begged not to move the truck, but the police forced the protesters aside and managed to get the truck moving. Near Bhangwadi on Kalbadevi Road, Babu Genu stood in front of the truck, shouting praises for [[Mahatma Gandhi]]. The police officer ordered the driver to drive the truck over Babu Genu, but the driver was an Indian, so he refused, saying: "I am Indian and he is also Indian, So, we both are the brothers of each other, then how can I murder my brother?". After that, the English police officer sat on the driver seat and drove the truck over Babu Genu and crushed him to death under the truck. This resulted in a huge wave of anger, strikes, and protests throughout Mumbai.