Atul Sen | |
Birth Place: | Senahati, Khulna District, British India |
Death Place: | Kolkata, British India |
Death Cause: | Suicide |
Occupation: | Indian independence movement activist |
Organization: | Jugantar |
Atul Sen (? – 5 August, 1932) (bn|অতুল সেন) was a Bengali Indian independence movement revolutionary activist against British rule in India. He often used the aliases Sambhu and Kutti.[1]
Atul Sen was born in Senahati village, Khulna District in British India. His father's name was Ashwini Kumar Sen. While still a student, he joined the Revolutionary party. As a student, he came in contact with the famous revolutionaries of the village, Rasiklal Das, Anujacharan Sen, Ratikanta Dutt and Kiran Chandra Mukherjee and was initiated into the mantra of revolution.
He was an active member of the Jugantar Party, while studying in Jadavpur Engineering College. During the independence movement, the Statesman was campaigning against the revolutionaries in such a way that the revolutionaries decided to kill Watson, the editor of the newspaper, in order to retaliate and prevent it. On 5 August 1932, he shot at Sir Alfred Watson,[2] but he failed to murder Mr. Watson and was arrested immediately. He committed suicide by consuming potassium cyanide.[3] [4]