How Santi Ghose and Suniti Choudhury shot British Magistrate

 Hello reader friends, how are you all. I hope everyone are healthy and doing progress in life. Today in the series of Gaurav Sangrah, we are going to talk about Santi Ghose and Suniti Choudhury, two such sisters, Women Freedom Fighter of the country:

• who avenged the hanging of Martyr Bhagat Singh by killing an Englishman.
• who were sentenced to imprisonment at the age of 14 and 15.
• one of them was upset because she was not given the death penalty.
• even after the imprisonment, both of them lived with self-respect in the country.

Let's know the life story of Santi Ghose and Suniti Choudhury, woman freedom fighters of India.

Santi Ghose and Suniti Choudhury

Who was Santi Ghose and Suniti Choudhury?

Santi Ghose

Santi Ghose was born on 22 November 1916 in Calcutta. Her father Devendranath Ghose was a college professor. As a child, she loved listening and reading the stories of freedom fighters, while other children loved listening to the stories of kings and queens.

Suniti Chodhari

Suniti Choudhury was born on 22 May 1917 in Comilla district of Bangladesh (British India). Suniti was active in social activities since she was studying in school, she herself used to take lead in such social activites. Her two brothers were involved in revolutionary movements from the time they were in college. Her mother, Sundari Choudhury, also supported her children in revolutionary movements.

How did Santi Ghose and Suniti Choudhury join the revolutionary organization?

Kalyani Devi was the teacher in the school where Santi Ghose and Suniti Choudhury studied. She was a teacher who was affiliated with many revolutionary organization. Kalyani Devi was the daughter of the teacher of Subhash Chandra Bose, who used to talk about revolutionaries to the girls in the hostel.

Gun Assembling

Praful Nalini, a girl studying with Santi and Suniti, who belonged to the Yugantar Institute started by revolutionaries helped them to join the Yugantar organization. Both Santi and Suniti were secretly taught to wield guns and assassins, hate the British and be patriotic to nation.

How Santi Ghose and Suniti Choudhury shot British Magistrate

Bhagat Singh was sentenced to death, as a revenge thought by the revolutionaries, Santi Ghose and Suniti Choudhury were chosen to take revenge. On 14 December 1931, both went school to the magistrate to seek permission for a swimming competition.

Just as District Magistrate Charles Geoffrey Buckland Stevens was about to read the permission letter, both Santi and Suniti shot and killed the magistrate.

Dead District Magistrate

District Magistrate died on the spot as both of them hit the target correctly. Both of them did not try to escape after killing the magistrate but were caught by the guard. Both were happy thinking that they had avenged the execution of Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev and Rajguru.

Why Santi Ghose and Suniti Choudhury were not sentenced to death?

As both Santi and Suniti were minors, they were not executed. Both were not prosecuted but were sentenced to life imprisonment in an underground prison. Both were upset because the death sentence was not given, both wanted to be martyred like Bhagat Singh because they use to believe him as ideol.

Apart from many atrocities on both by the British in the jail, their families were also tortured by the British. Both suffered many atrocities of the British but did not spoke a single thing about the Yugantar institution.

During World War II several agreements were made between the British and the Congress. In which imprisoned politicians and revolutionaries were released. Santi Ghose and Suniti Choudhury were also released from jail during that time.

How did Santi Ghose and Suniti Choudhury spend the rest of their lives after coming out of prison?

Santi Ghose and Suniti Choudhury killed an Englishman for the freedom of the country. People were proud of them both, so they lived with self-respect in the country. After coming out of the jail:

Santi Ghose

• She worked with the Congress party
• She was married to Professor Chitaranjan Das.
• Also worked in the Legislative Council in Bengal.

Suniti Choudhury

• She studied medicine and became an MBBS doctor.
• She was married to Pradhot Kumar, a leader of Majdoor Sangh.

Conclusion:

In this article we saw how two minor girls whose age were 14 and 15 years, were dedicated towards their country and their respect for their senior revolutionary. How they took revenge on Bhagat Singh and his associates by killing the District Magistrate.

Women were not usually entrusted with such task of danger by the revolutionaries but they were entrusted for this task after watching their dedication for the country's freedom. Santi Ghose died on 28 March 1989 and Suniti Choudhury died on 12 January 1986.

There are still many names of our country who dedicated themselves in the Freedom Struggle but we do not find their names in Indian history.

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