Background
Dutta was born on 1 January 1927 to Upendra Chandra Dutta and Labanyaprabha Dutta. His father was a police officer posted in Shillong, the then capital of Assam in British India and so he was born in Shillong.
Dutta was born on 1 January 1927 to Upendra Chandra Dutta and Labanyaprabha Dutta. His father was a police officer posted in Shillong, the then capital of Assam in British India and so he was born in Shillong.
University of Calcutta. Asutosh College.
He was a key sector commander of the Mukti Bahini during the Bangladesh Liberation War. After independence, he served as the armed forces commander in Rangpur and later went onto to become the first Director-General of the Bangladesh Rifles (present-day Border Guards Bangladesh) in 1973. Today, Dutta is a prominent minority rights advocate in Bangladesh.
The ancestral village of Dutta of Mirashi was in erstwhile Sylhet district, presently in Chunarughat Upazila of Habiganj District in Sylhet Division of Bangladesh.
He started his schooling in Laban Government High School in Shillong, but moved to Habiganj after second grade. In 1944, he appeared for Entrance from Habiganj Government High School.
Later he took admission at Asutosh College of the University of Calcutta in science. However, he left Asutosh College and completed his Bachelor of Science from Daulatpur College in Khulna.
In 1948, Dutta joined the Pakistan Army from the last batch of the Indian Military Academy.
Soon he was commissioned as a second lieutenant. During the 1965 Indo-Pakistan War, then Major Dutta served as a Battalion GSO-I. In 1971, Colonel Dutta was serving in the Frontier Force Regiment. In January 1971, he had taken a three-month leave and was staying at his Habiganj residence.
After Mujibur Rahman"s 7 March speech, Dutta mentally prepared himself for a possible war.
However, as the Pakistani occupation army launched the Operation Searchlight, Dutta wasn"t initially aware of the widespread repression and torture. At that time he attended a meeting of the political leaders at the house of his neighbour Colonel Abdur Rab.
Following the meeting, Dutta decided to fight for the independence of Bangladesh. During the Bangladesh Liberation War, Dutta became the sector commander of Sector 4, which covered the whole of the present Sylhet Division and some of adjoining areas.
After the war, in 1972, Dutta was appointed as brigade commander in Rangpur.
In 1973, formed the Bangladesh Rifles. He became the first Director General of Bangladesh Rifles. After the assassination of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, successive military regimes gradually removed the founding principles by Islamic principles.
Since the foundation, Dutta has served as the President of the organization in uninterrupted manner.
As the president Dutta has fought tirelessly for the rights of the minorities. Dutta has campaigned for the return of the properties confiscated using the Vested Property Acting to their rightful owners.
The liberation war of Bangladesh was fought on the principles of Bengali nationalism. The 1972 Constitution of Bangladesh included the principles of the democracy, secularism, socialism and Bengali nationalism at the four pillars of the nation.