He forced his uncle to patronize a handicraft fair on collegiate school premises and continued it till 7 April.

[5] After discussion it was decided by the Bengal Volunteers group that the first target would be James Peddie the District Magistrate of Medinipur.

On 7 April at around 5:00 p.m., Peddie went to the fair[clarification needed] to distribute prizes, along with two officers, 16 police dogs and 16 bodyguards.

[8] Some days later Dasgupta was again given the responsibility of killing Villiers, chief editor of the newspaper The Statesman of Clive Street.

Police eventually found him as a defendant in the Peddie Murder case after he was assumed to be dead, as the revolutionary Kanailal Bhattacharjee, who killed R. R. Galik, a judge of the Alipore court, on 27 July 1931 and was martyred under the name of Bimal Dasgupta (or Bimal Gupta) so that the police would stop searching for the real Dasgupta.

[9][10] The sacrifice of Bhattacharjee, to remain anonymous and save another revolutionary from the hands of the police is rare in history.

At the initiative of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, three barristers stood for the revolutionaries in the special tribunal.

Ghosh was acquitted and during cross-examination, key witness Sushil Das said, "Peddi's killer is not Bimal Dasgupta."

To save Dasgupta, Raja Narendra Lal Khan of Medinipur had instructed Das to say this.