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The '''Howrah-Sibpur Conspiracy case''' refers to the arrest and trials of 47 [[Bengalis|Bengali]] Indian nationalists of the ''[[Anushilan Samiti]]'' that followed in the wake of the murder of Inspector Shamsul Alam on 24 January 1910 in [[Calcutta]]. Alam was Deputy superintendent and intelligence officer in [[Bengal Police]] investigating the murder of [[Naren Gosain]], crown-witness in the [[Alipore bomb case]], and other murders including those of Ashutosh Biswas, advocate of [[Calcutta High Court]] in charge of prosecution of Gossain murder case, and of Naren Bannerjee, the police officer who arrested [[Khudiram Bose]]. Alam had uncovered the underlying Bengali revolutionary network of the ''Anushilan Samiti'' that linked the murders and other robberies in this time,{{citation needed|date=October | The '''Howrah-Sibpur Conspiracy case''' refers to the arrest and trials of 47 [[Bengalis|Bengali]] Indian nationalists of the ''[[Anushilan Samiti]]'' that followed in the wake of the murder of Inspector Shamsul Alam on 24 January 1910 in [[Calcutta]]. Alam was Deputy superintendent and intelligence officer in [[Bengal Police]] investigating the murder of [[Naren Gosain]], crown-witness in the [[Alipore bomb case]], and other murders including those of Ashutosh Biswas, advocate of [[Calcutta High Court]] in charge of prosecution of Gossain murder case, and of Naren Bannerjee, the police officer who arrested [[Khudiram Bose]]. Alam had uncovered the underlying Bengali revolutionary network of the ''Anushilan Samiti'' that linked the murders and other robberies in this time,{{citation needed|date=October 2022}} and at the time of his own murder in the hands of [[Biren Dutta Gupta]], Alam was preparing to consolidate the charges to bring them all to trial in a single case.<ref name="Roy6">{{Harvnb|Roy|1997|p=6}} Shamsul Alam, an Intelligence officer who was then preparing to arrest all the revolutionaries and commit them for trial in a single conspiracy case, was murdered by Biren Datta Gupta.</ref> | ||
47 of the accused were arrested by 29 Jan 1910. The trial of the accused commenced on 4 March 1910 with a second hearing in the [[Calcutta High Court]] in July 1910. However, the de-centralised structure of the ''Samiti'' meant the prosecution's attempts to demonstrate the crimes as linked and the ''Samiti'' as a unifying organisation failed. 33 of the accused were subsequently acquitted. Of the accused, [[Jatin Mukherjee]] and [[Narendranath Bhattacharjee]] were among those convicted and sentenced to one-years imprisonment. | 47 of the accused were arrested by 29 Jan 1910. The trial of the accused commenced on 4 March 1910 with a second hearing in the [[Calcutta High Court]] in July 1910. However, the de-centralised structure of the ''Samiti'' meant the prosecution's attempts to demonstrate the crimes as linked and the ''Samiti'' as a unifying organisation failed. 33 of the accused were subsequently acquitted. Of the accused, [[Jatin Mukherjee]] and [[Narendranath Bhattacharjee]] were among those convicted and sentenced to one-years imprisonment. | ||
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[[Category:1910 in India]] | [[Category:1910 in India]] | ||
[[Category:Trials in India]] | [[Category:Trials in India]] | ||
[[Category:History of | [[Category:History of Kolkata]] | ||
[[Category:Indian case law]] | [[Category:Indian case law]] | ||
[[Category:1910 crimes in India]] | [[Category:1910 crimes in India]] | ||