Gopinath Saha was a BengaliIndian freedom fighter who attempted to assassinate Charles Tegart, the then head of the Detective Department of Calcutta Police. On 12 January1924 Saha attempted to kill Tegart, but erroneously Ernest day, a British civilian. Saha was arrested and executed by the government.
References
Amit Kumar Gupta. Defying Death: Nationalist Revolutionism in India, 1897-1938. Social Scientist, Vol. 25, No. 9/10 (Sep. - Oct., 1997), pp. 3-27 .