The brave revolutionaries who were sentenced to black water (The Cellular Jail).

The punishment of Kala Pani was such a punishment of the past, whose name used to make the prisoners tremble. It was a prison known as the Cellular Jail. Even today people know it by this name. The Cellular Jail was built by the British during the first revolution of 1857. It took more than 10 years to build this jail. This jail has been built in Port Blair, the capital of Andaman and Nicobar Islands.

The Cellular Jail has been a mute spectator to the inhuman sufferings of the great patriots and freedom fighters who were imprisoned in these dungeons. He even had to sacrifice his precious life as a victim of tyranny. Although many Indian revolutionaries had spent their prison life in Cellular Jail, but here we are giving the names of some of the main revolutionaries, which are as follows.

Veer Savarkar – In 1911, freedom fighter Vinayak Damodar Savarkar was sentenced to 50 years in the Cellular Jail in the Andamans for rebelling against the Marley-Minto Reforms (Indian Council Act 1909). He was released in 1924. He was known for his bravery and hence was given the nickname Veer.

BatukeshwarDutt- Also known as BN Dutt, was a revolutionary freedom fighter. He was involved with Bhagat Singh in the 1929 Central Legislative Assembly bombing case, he died on 20 July 1965 due to an illness at the age of 54. Both Singh and Dutt were sentenced to life imprisonment. BatukeshwarDutt was put in the Cellular Jail at Port Blair.

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FazleHaqKhairabadi – On 30 January 1859, he was arrested in Khairabad by the British authorities for inciting violence. He was found guilty of playing a role in jihad and encouraging murder. He decided to be his own lawyer and defended himself. During the arguments of the case, he accepted his crime but did not lie and said. Yes, that fatwa is correct, it was written by me and even today I stand by my fatwa. After confessing to the charges, he was sentenced to Kala Pani and an order was issued to confiscate all the property. He died in Andaman Nicobar (Cellular Jail) on 20 August 1861.

Barindra Kumar Ghosh –Barindra Kumar Ghosh was born on 5 January 1880 in Croydon, near London. Following the Kingsford assassination attempt on 30 April 1908 by two revolutionaries, Khudiram Bose and PrafullaChaki, the police intensified their investigation which led to the arrest of Barindra Kumar Ghosh and Arvind Ghosh on 2 May 1908, DeshbandhuChittaranjan Das and Barindra Kumar Ghosh Along with other convicts, he was sent to the Cellular Jail in Andaman in 1909.