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| Notorious police officer Sir Charles Tegart. the Raj. historyireland.com |
Tegart became the Superintendent of Police in 1908, and received the King's Police Medal in 1911. Through devotion to duty and ruthless dealing with criminal, his promotion was quick and he came Commissioner of Calcutta Police from 1923 to 1931. It was natural he earned the ire of the Bengali patriots and anti-British activists who fought for Indian independence. His actions were quite menacing and formed a huge road block for the revolutionaries. He gave a tough time to patriots led by Jatindranath Mukherjee at Balasore in Orissa on 9 September 1915.
That Tegart is said to have survived six assassination attempts in India is a tell-tale story of his notoriety and repressive brutality in dealing with natives and their demand for freedom. Undeterred by several attempts on his life, not withstanding danger to his life, he had the audacity and guts to drive around in an open-top car with his Staffordshire Bull Terrier riding on the bonnet as if the critter was his main body guard. He was awarded the KCIE in 1937 and Lord Lytton, then Governor of Bengal was in full-praise of him for his serious efforts to curb freedom activities
Among attempts on his life, the following are quite note-worthy: An abortive attempt on Tegart on 12 January 1924, at Chowringhee Road in Calcutta, by Gopinath Saha, a Bengali revolutionist, who accidentally shot down a white man, Mr. Ernest Day, mistaking him for Tegart. In yet another incident on 25 August 1930, at Dalhousie Square in Calcutta, a bomb was lobbed into the car in which Tegart was traveling, b
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