Bio Weapon

                                   

NOTE: This story is based on the author's fiction. It doesn’t apply to any historical references or real-life incidents. The incident that made other countries look at India before 90 years is an interesting case we are going to decode in this story.

AGE LIMIT: Suitable for all ages.

November 26, 1933

INDIA

In today’s Kolkata, which was previously called Calcutta, the busy railway station Howrah was also busy on that day. Even though the train count was not high at that time, like now, at that time lots of people were travelling by train.

Like increasing the crowd in the railway station, which was already crowded, a small crowd was entering the station.

If a crowd was this noisy at this time, it would definitely be to receive or send off a politician. But it was not an independent India. It was British India. If you think it must be a British officer, No. It’s not.)

It was a zamindar. Even though the British were ruling, huge respect was there for the Zamindars. When he came to the railway station, a big crowd came with him, and the zamindar suddenly started screaming that someone had stabbed him. Immediately, people came with him, panicked, and checked it.

A short person who was wearing a cotton shirt ran away from the crowd faster and saw that he was mingling with other passengers. Immediately, they tried to catch that person. But since it was very crowded, they couldn’t find him in the crowd.

“That short man in the cotton shirt must have done something.” People checked Zamindar’s body; he was screaming. But there was not even a small wound in his body, and a small pain was there in his right hand, like someone pinched him. But it was Zamindar who told her it was painful, and everyone suggested going to the hospital.

At that time, Zamindar’s elder brother, who was also a Zamindar, came there in panic, inquired about what happened there, and looked at his brother’s hand. He was very tensed after looking at that and said, “It looks like an insect bite.” He shouted that they were scaring a small boy for a matter like this and asked him to go without being scared.

Immediately everyone went along with him, including Zamindar, who went to his native Kolkata. In the next three days, he fell ill. After that, in the next few days, on December 4, Zamindar died. When doctors said how the zamindar died, the whole British government was shocked. They were confused about how it could be possible.

At that time, in all the famous newspapers in the world, this shocking news became the headline.

At one time, one of the parts of Bihar state, in the Bahur district of today’s Jharkhand state, was a well-sourced place. With a lot of coal mines and quarries like this, there was no shortage of money, and the zamindars of those were the younger Amarendra Chandra Pandey and the elder Binoyendra Chandra Pandey.

(Since they were zamindars, don’t think that they were old.)

Amarendra Chandra Pandey is a 20-year-old younger zamindar. Binoyendra Chandra Pandey is a 30-year-old elder zamindar. A few years after their father died, both of them were announced as zamindars. In this situation, when the younger Zamindar was returning from Kolkata, he suddenly started screaming that someone had stabbed him. At that time, his brother consoled him and sent him off.

When he returned, Amarendra Pandey got a fever. Since the fever didn’t cure after the treatment, in the next three days he returned to Kolkata. But even in Kolkata, his fever was not cured, and it started to increase, and lung disease symptoms began to come. Without being cured by the treatment, he went to the coma stage on December 3. Before others thought of what to do next, without returning to consciousness from coma, the next day on December 4, younger zamindar Amarendra Chandra Pandey died.

Doctors mentioned in his death certificate that he died due to pneumonia. After his death was confirmed, his body was sent to his native country, and rituals were done.

(The things that happened until now might look like normal and casual things.)

But the next day after he was buried, his blood test report came, and the British government, which heard about this report, was very shocked. In that blood report, it is mentioned that he had plague disease. But the doctors who treated him gave him a certificate that he died due to pneumonia.

Whether it was pneumonia or plague, he died due to the disease. But what is there for the British government to be shocked by? From 1896 to 1918, in India, plague disease was spreading faster throughout the country. Like the Corona, people were dying in mass at that time, and the count of people who died at that time was 125 million. So if that disease has come now, then it is no surprise for the government to be shocked.

The government was shocked that that contagious disease came again and started a severe investigation. In the investigation, they came to know that there was no plague in all of British India. Because of this, the British officers were so surprised, and to find out how he alone got the disease, they made the scientists and doctors do research.

The information they got from that research was the main reason for this case to make the headlines of newspapers throughout the world.

The doctor said about this case history: “In the body of younger Zamindar Amarendra Chandra Pandey, someone intentionally injected the bacteria that contains plague.” He said that definitely this is what happened.

But for the last three years, no one has been affected by the plague. When it was like that, they thought about how they got that bacteria. The government came to know that in a research centre in Bombay, they had preserved that bacteria for research.

“But how did they take that bacteria from Bombay to Kolkata?" The British police started to investigate who brought it. At the end of the investigation in February 1934, for killing younger zamindars Amarendra Chandra Pandey, Dr. Taranath Bhattacharya, Dr. Durgaratan, and Dr. Shibapada Bhattacharya, they arrested these three doctors.

The information they got during the investigation at that time surprised the whole world about whether it could happen. It made other countries turn and look at India. What was the rivalry between the doctors and Amarendra? How Amarendra died because of them (Now we can see what they did.)

In May 1932, Dr. Taranath Bhattacharya contacted the lab in Mumbai and said that he had found a cure for plague, and to test that, he said that he needed that plague bacteria. In the whole of India, only that place contains plague bacteria. But the people in the lab denied the proposal. But he somehow bribed and got that plague bacteria. He got permission to work in a lab in Kolkata.

Taranath, who worked in that lab for five days, took that bacteria and came to Kolkata. He preserved that in a lab. On November 26, 1933, at Howrah railway station, it was injected into the younger zamindar, Amarendra Chandra Pandey.

The reason why the younger Zamindar shouted that someone stabbed him is that only. Who injected that bacteria into him, and first, why do they have to kill him? (To know about this, first we have to know about Bahur.)

The zamindar of Bahur is Pratapendra Chandra Pandey. He officially had two wives, and both wives had one son and one daughter. The elder brother Binoyendra Chandra Pandey was born to his first wife, and the dead Amarendra Chandra Pandey was born to his second wife. In this case, Amarendra Chandra Pandey’s mother died in a few days, and Zamindar Pratapendra Chandra Pandey also died in 1929.

Zamindar’s wealth was divided into two, with Binoyendra as the elder zamin and Amarendra as the younger zamin. But at that time, since Amarendra was a 15-year-old minor, until he attained the age of 18, all the wealth was enjoyed by his elder brother Binoyendra.

In 1932, Amarendra was 18 years old. He asked to hand over his wealth to him. But Binoyendra, who was enjoying his life, became so angry. He planned to enjoy the whole wealth by himself. When his brother asked to divide the wealth, Bionyendra, who became very angry without showing any anger outside even a little bit, acted like he loved his brother, Amarendra Chandra Pandey, and planned to finish him off.

The first plan was that one day he would take Amarendra for a walk. Like in the Basha movie, he gave a sunglass to his brother and asked him to wear it. But without wearing it, he kept it in his pocket. Seeing this, Binoyendra was compelled to put it down immediately. When Amarendra put that glass on him, he had a wound on his nose. That wound cured in three days. But his face started to bloat.

The doctors who checked him said, “You had a bacterial infection” and treated him. The glass that his brother gave him had a serious infection called tetanus, and his brother did this by acting as if he loved him. But Amarendra didn’t know this. Even though the doctors somehow saved Amarendra,

Amarendra was cured a little and started doing his daily work. On November 26, 1933, when Amarendra was coming into the railway station, a short man suddenly came and injected the bacteria into his hand. That man subsequently ran away from there. He injected the bacteria, which contained plague.

90 years before this much cleverly, even before the developed countries thought about the biowar or bioweapon, a small zamindar, because of a brother dispute, has thought like this. At that time, it surprised the whole world. 

Even though Binoyendra acted like he loved his younger brother, because of the complaint given by Amarendra’s relative, Binoyendra was arrested first.

Binoyendra tried to escape to a foreign land. But the police arrested him. They also arrested the doctors who helped him. Binoyendra and the doctors were given a death sentence at that time. But till the end, police couldn’t find who injected that bacteria into Amarendra Chandra Pandey’s body.

Binoyendra also didn’t open his mouth about it. In January 1936, Kolkata’s high court reduced their death sentence to a life sentence and sent them to Andaman jail.

After that, 11 years later, in 1947, after India got independence, they started releasing the prisoners of politics and freedom fighters who had sacrificed their lives for India. At that time, by using his influence, Binoyendra was also released from jail.

Binoyendra, who came from jail, was not in control. He was threatening to kill everyone with the gun. People locked him in a room and informed the police. But when the police came there, he started attacking the police. Without any choice, police encountered Binoyendra brutally.

EPILOGUE

So Readers. Have you heard about bioweapon murders before? 100 years before the plan, which even developed countries couldn’t imagine, how could a zamindar who was enjoying his life with drinks think? Have you met this kind of person who betrays the people they trust and love? Have you heard about the murders that happened differently? Then write it down without forgetting. We will see those cases in detail in the upcoming stories. Or if this case is different and new to you, give a like to this story and share it with your friends.

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