Prafulla Chaki

Prafulla Chandra Chaki (Bengali: প্রফুল্ল চাকী, Prafulla Chaki alias Dinesh Chandra Roy) (10 December 1888 – 2 May 1908) was an Indian revolutionary associated with the Jugantar group of revolutionaries who carried out an assassination attempt against a British colonial official in an attempt to secure Indian independence.

Prafulla and Khudiram Bose tried to assassinate the notorious district judge of Muzaffarpur, Douglas Kingsford, by throwing bombs at a carriage they believed Kingsford was traveling in, but he was not in the carriage, and two British women were killed instead. Prafulla committed suicide when he was about to be arrested by the police. Khudiram was arrested and tried for the murder of the two women and sentenced to death. Mahatma Gandhi denounced the violence and regretted the deaths of the two women. He stated that "the Indian people will not win their freedom through these methods". However, Bal Gangadhar Tilak, in his newspaper Kesari, defended the two young men and called for immediate swaraj. This was followed by the immediate arrest of Tilak by the British colonial government on charges of sedition.