Baghajatin’s death anniversary being observed at Barabati Girls’ School in Balasore. Telegraph picture

Balasore, Sept. 10: Tributes were paid to revolutionary Jatin Chakraborty today. Popularly known as Baghajatin, he had laid down his life fighting against the British on the outskirts of the town.

A 48-member team from Bengal named “Rakta tirthajatri” visited the places associated with Baghajatin’s matryrdom such as, Desuanpokhari, Chasakhand and Barabati Girls’ School, and paid their tributes. Local residents also attended the commemorative function.

The hero of the pre-independence struggle had breathed his last while undergoing treatment for a bullet injury on the school premises, which was then the Balasore district headquarters hospital. Baghajatin had sustained severe bullet injuries during a pitched gunbattle with the British police at Desuanpokhari in 1915.

Jayshree Bhattacharya is making a documentary film on Baghajatin. Bhattacharya had visited Balasore accompanied by the revolutionary’s grandson Dhitendranath Mukherjee in 2008 before beginning the shooting. Baghajatin and his aides had hidden inside the Kaptipada jungle in Mayurbhanj district to evade being arrested by the British. The battle was fought in Chasakhand, 10km from Balasore, where they were waiting the arrival of a huge consignment of arms consisting of one lakh rifles and 6,000 pistols at the Balasore coast for an armed rebellion. The consignment never arrived and they were chased by a police team headed by Charles A. Teggart.

Baghajatin, injured with bullet injuries, was admitted to the district headquarters hospital on September 10, 1915, when he refused to undergo treatment in the hands of British doctors.

One of his aides, Chittapriya Raychaudhary, died in the encounter and two others, Manoranjan Sengupta and Birendranath Seugupta, were hanged. Another aide, Jyotish, was sent to Cellular Jail in the Andamans.