Madhusudan_Das

118 Madhusudan Das:
young lawyer from Cuttack. The judges were much pleased with Mr. Das
and invited him to an evening party where he was introduced to other
judges and eminent persons of Calcutta. Immediately after that the Lt.
Governor of Bengal invited him to the Government House for having
compromise with the Rani over the Puri temple affair. In 1888 a deed of
agreement between the Raja of Puri and the Government was made. The
Government recognised the Raja of Puri as the Superintendent of the
Temple and also agreed to allow the grand mother of Mukunda Dev to act
as the Superintendent on behalf of minor Raja Mukunda Dev to manage
the affairs of the Temple. Thus Mr.Das had won a great victory for the
Jagannath temple and the Puri Raja holding high the traditional honour
and dignity of the historic Temple of the Hindu world. Two other cases in
which Mr. Das had exposed the tyranic conspiracy and the mischief of the
local British officials were equally important.
MANSINGHPATNA DACOITY CASE
In a dacaity case of Mansinghpatna of Cuttack in 1902 some
dacoits of Bengal were involved. But the Bengali Police Inspector
Anangamohan Chakravarti, the S.P. Mr. Sur and Mr. K.G.Gupta, the
Revenue Divisional Commissioner conspired and falsely instituted a case
against two local people Dani and Ranga who were transported for life. In
1903 the Police also sent a confidential report against Mr. Das to the
Government stating that he was a receiver of stolen ornament and he
melted these ornaments in his melting workshop attached to his filigree
works. Sometimes after an European Police Officer of the Calcutta C.I.D.
arrested a gang of dacoits of Bengal who were responsible for the Cuttack
Mansinghpatna dacoity case. When this information reached Madhu-Babu
he immediately wrote a letter to the Lt. Governor. Bengal for the release
of the innocent persons who were falsely implicated by the Police in the
case and were convicted. The innocent persons of Cuttack were released
by the Governor. (Even now this dishonest practice persists with some
Police officers who maliciously fabricate false cases against innocent
persons.)
FALSE POLICE REPORT AGAINST MADHUSUDAN
Those non-Oriya Police officers who had instituted the false case
about the Mansinghpatna dacoity had wanted to defame and discredit
Madhu Babu. They had done so at the instance of some other interested
persons who were highly jealous of Madhu Babu's growing fame and