The Alipore Bomb Trial

TWELVTH DAY’S PROCEEDINGS

     His Lordship resumed the hearing of the reference when the Advocate-General continued to deal with the case against Susil Kumar Sen, one of the Sen Brothers of Sylhet.

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     While the Advocate—Genera1 was referring to the formulas contained in two notes found at Sylhet, his Lordship enquired whether there was anything to show that these formulae tallied with those found in the garden at Calcutta.

     The Advocate-General replied that exhibit 34, a book on "Explosives" found in the garden, contained word for word the formulae found in the Sylhet exhibits and this fact proved beyond a shadow of doubt the connection of these two young men with the head-quarters of the conspiracy in Calcutta.

     As regards the letters found in a canvas bag at Sylhet, the Advocate General said that they all breathed a spirit of conspiracy, sedition and disaffection against the constituted Government of the land. There was not even a scintilla of reference to the alleged manufacture of matches in which he was engaged. Almost all the letters that the appellant had received from various quarters, extolled him as a hero and a martyr to the cause of the motherland and he had treasured them all in spite of the expressed desire of the writers to destroy them, simply to show that he approved of their contents and wanted to preserve them as a sort of certificate.

     The Advocate-General next explained the cryptogram letter and referred to certain articles in the Yugantar to show that these youths imbibed the idea of revolution against the constituted authority in the land. He next read certain articles in the Sandhya headed "Kali Mayi’s Bombs" and had not concluded his arguments when the Court rose for the day.

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