Devendra Prasad Gupta (/prəˈsɑːd ˈɡʊptə, ˈɡʌp-/ ⓘ; 2 January 1933 – 26 December 2017) was an Indian pre-democratic political sufferer, botanist and academician.

Hailing and raised from a family of Vaidhraj commonly termed as olden Ayurvedic physicians, he dynamically partook in Indian freedom movements of Civil Disobedience 1942[1] as a result of which his studies were discontinued for years.

[3] He confronted bullets and suffered from gangrenous wound on the lower part of the left leg with bone exposed which temporarily incapacitated him for two months.

The wound being stated was caused by the three bullets fired by British soldiers under their contingent military operation at Maheshkhunt, district of Monghyr in August 1942.

On 24 August 1942 his grandfather Chulhai Sah faced the bullet of a British soldier in a raid at his house for extirpating railway track of Maheshkhunt station and met a martyr death.

He was treated at Medanta hospital for femur fracture and had a prolonged stay in the ICU and Suite for his fluid, electrolyte, blood sugar and BP management.