Bijon Setu

Bijon Setu is a bridge situated above Ballygunge Junction railway station connects EM Bypass through Kasba with Gariahat.

35 year old Basu was an executive engineer of then Calcutta Improvement Trust.

[2] On 2 August 1974, while he was returning home from Santoshpur to Sealdah, a gang of robbers got on the train and looted passengers.

Basu protested but the robbers stabbed him and threw him out from the running train beside Ballygunge railway station.

[5][6] 16 monks and one nun of a Hindu organization Ananda Marga religious sect were lynched and burnt alive near Bijon Setu in the morning of 30 April 1982.