On 30th September 1915, a group of twenty-two revolutionaries of Barisal group of Jugantar Party committed political dacoity in Shibpur, under the Nadia police station. They carried electric torches and were armed with guns and mouser pistols and raided the house of Kristo Biswas, who was a wealthy money-lender and lived near the Jhalangi river, nine miles from the railway station. Cash and ornaments to the value of Rs. 20,689 were looted. They faced resistance from the villagers and the police also chased them along the riverbank from both sides. One policeman was killed in the crossfire. A number of arrests were made in what was known as Shibpur Dacoity Case and Naren Ghosh Chaudhary was the last to be arrested on 29th November 1915. They were tried by a special commissioner appointed under the Defence of India Act. The judgement was announced on 15th February 1916. Naren Ghosh Choudhary, Nikhil Guha Roy, Surendra Nath Biswas, Sanukal Chatterjee, Satya Ranjan Basu, Jatindra Nath Nandi, Kalicharan Dass, Bhupendra Nath Ghosh, Harendra Nath Kaviyatirtha (A Sanskrit scholar) were sentenced to transportation for ten years. They were also sent to the Andamans to undergo their sentences.
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