Charles Geoffrey Buckland Stevens

Charles Geoffrey Buckland Stevens was a British bureaucrat and district magistrate of Comilla district during the British Raj. Suniti Choudhury a fourteen year old revolutionary from Bengal shot him dead on 14 December 1931.[1] One the pretext of seeking permission to arrange a swimming competition among their classmates, Suniti Choudhury and Santi Ghosh met Stevens in his office and as he was going through the request letter, Suniti Choudhury drew the gun and fired at him from point blank range. [2] An Indian orderly, also injured by bullet, caught both the girls and handed over to the police. [2] They declared that they killed Stevens in retribution to hanging of Bhagat Singh by the colonial authorities.[3]

References

Dasgupta, Priyanka. "At 14, my mother had shot dead a British district magistrate ". Times of India. Times of India. Retrieved 7 February 2022.
Smith, Bonnie G. (2008). The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History, Volume 1. Oxford University. p. 377. ISBN 0195148908, 9780195148909. {{cite book}}: Check |isbn= value: invalid character (help)
Anand, Anitha (4 April 2019). The Patient Assassin: A True Tale of Massacre, Revenge and the Raj. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-1471174230. Retrieved 12 February 2022.

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[1] Dasgupta, Priyanka. "At 14, my mother had shot dead a British district magistrate ". Times of India. Times of India. Retrieved 7 February 2022.

[ox-2] Smith, Bonnie G. (2008). The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History, Volume 1. Oxford University. p. 377. ISBN 0195148908, 9780195148909. {{cite book}}: Check |isbn= value: invalid character (help)

[3] Anand, Anitha (4 April 2019). The Patient Assassin: A True Tale of Massacre, Revenge and the Raj. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-1471174230. Retrieved 12 February 2022.