Haridas Dutta

Haridas Dutta (16 November 1890 — 29 February 1976) was a Bengali revolutionary involved with Rodda company arms heist case.

Early life Dutta was born in 1890 in Dhaka, British India. He came in contact with senior Bengali revolutionary Hemchandra Ghosh and joined in Mukti Sangha. In 1912, Dutta and Khagendra Nath Das entered into Alexander Jute Mill near Jagatdal as labour and worked there for three months to assassinate a British engineer. But they failed and fled away from there. Dutta was arrested on 11 October 1914 and imprisoned in a solitary cell of Presidency Jail, latter transferred to in Hazaribag Central Jail and imprisoned for 4 years. After completion of World War I he was released and again took pivotal role of revolutionary activities of Bengal Volunteers group in between 1930 and 1934 in Dhaka, Comilla, Medinipur and Kolkata. He gave shelter to Benoy Basu after assassination of Mr. Lowman, the Inspector General of Police. Dutta was popular and known as Mejda to the members of Bengal Volunteers. He was also involved with Writers Building attack by Benoy, Badal and Dinesh.