TERRORIST PLOT

Stratford Evening Post, Volume II, Issue 452, 4 January 1934, Page 5

TERRORIST PLOT

MURDER OF MAGISTRATE Students on Trial PREPARATIONS FOR ASSASr SINATION One Accused Turns King’s : Evidence , Press Association —Copyright. ■ . Calcutta, Jan. 3. - At. the opening of the trial of 13 youths; mostly students, in connection with the murder in September of Mr. B. E. Burge, district magistrate at MidnapOre, counsel for the prosecution said the terrorist plot' was formed in 1928. The majority of the accused youths joined in 1932, studied seditious literature and advocated securing independence by violence. A- rumour had-spread that Mr. Burge oppressed the peasants in order to secure taxes;‘whereupon the accused decided to murder him. They indulged in target practice with revolvers in a remote jungle, ’’Mr. Burge was murdered while playing football on September 2. Two members of the gang, Ananta and Mrigendra, were killed by Mr. Burge’s guards! The remaining members, armed with revolvers,' remained in the vicinity of the crime. One named Sailesh Gosh was later arrested, turned “King’s evidence” 1 and revealed the names of the accused m6n and the details of the plot.