The Forgotten Trio

Benoy Badal Dinesh, the Bravery trio

The trio of 3 idiots or the trio of Yeh Zindagi Na Milege Dobara we know but there is a trio of 3 brave boys who on their own took a big step to contribute to the movement of independence of India.

The trio of three brave hearts who took matters in their hand against the British, in the Writer’s building in Kolkata, the administrative center of the city during the British rule. It was a usual day of works going on when a sudden sound of shots made eco through ages on the hearts of the British people.

the comrades were Benoy Krishan Basu, Dinesh Gupta, and Sudhir Gupta.

Benoy Krishan Basu, born in Rohitbhog, Bangladesh on 11 September 1908, completed his matriculation in Dhaka , got enrolled into Mitford medical School(Sir Salimullah Medical college), but he couldn’t able to complete his medical studies as he joined in “Mukti sangha’ a secret society under the influence of a revolutionary of Dhaka Hemchandra Ghosh.

Dinesh Chandra Gupta, born in Josholong, Bangladesh on 6 December 1911. He joined a group organized by Subhas Chandra bosh ‘Bengal volunteers while he was studying in Dhaka college, while that the Bengal volunteers transformed to a more active revolutionary association, planned of killing British police officers, for short time Dinesh Gupta was training local revolutionaries in use of firearms in Midnapore, who was responsible for the assassination of three District Magistrates in succession.

Badal Gupta, his real name was Sudhir Gupta, was born in Puba Shimulia, in the region of Dhaka, now in Mushiganj District, Bangladesh, as he inspired by a teacher of the Banaripara School of Bikrampur ‘Nikunja Sem’, joined the Bengal Volunteers, he was also influenced by his two paternal uncles ‘Dharaninath Gupta and Nagendranath Gupta who were the revolutionary activities who had a major role in the Alipore Bomb Case.

The motto of their Bravery act was of killing N S Simpson, the late Colonel of the Indian Imperial Police and the Inspector General of Police(Prisons), the person behind the worst atrocities on the inmates of prisons and other Britishers. The three men dressed in European attire came from the shadows and opened fire from their revolvers shot Simpson shot in 7 bullets on him, three on the head. Soon the British police surrounded them and there was a brief gun battle between the trio and the cops, some of the lead officers lead to severe injuries but somehow the British police overpowered them but the three men refused to surrender, immediately on the spot Badal Gupta ingested Potassium Cyanide died on spot, while Benoy and Dinesh shot themselves point-blank by their firearms. Dinesh and Benoy were taken to hospital but took their last breath on 13 December 1930 as he used to keep on injuring on the spot where the bullet was hit, Dinesh Gupta was the only one to survive, later he was martyred by hanging on 7th July 1931 at the Alipore Jail, at the age of 19 for anti-government activities and murder. 

On the 8th of December, the three young men one of 19 and two of them merely 22 achieved immortality and strike terror in the hearts of British officers by their unimaginable act.