Rodda company arms heist

The Rodda company arms heist took place on 26 August 1914 in Calcutta, British India. Members of the Jugantar faction of the Bengali revolutionary organisation Anushilan Samiti intercepted a shipment of Mauser Pistols and ammunition belonging to Messrs Rodda & co., a Calcutta gun dealer, while these were en route from the Customs house to the company's godown, and were able to make away with a portion the arms.^[1]^[2] The heist was a sensational incident, being described by The Statesman as the "Greatest daylight robbery".^[1] In the following years, the pistols and ammunitions were linked to almost all the instances of nationalist struggles in Bengal. By 1922, the police had recovered most of the stolen arms.

^ ^a ^b "Kolkata's 'greatest daylight robbery' all but forgotten". The Statesman. 25 August 2013. Archived from the original on 21 September 2016.
^ Sarkar 1983, p. 147 In Bengal, the revolutionaries achieved a major success in August 1914, when a large consignment of 50 Mauser pistols and 46,000 rounds of ammunition was appropriated by them from the Rodda firm in Calcutta through a sympathetic employee.

[Statesman-1] "Kolkata's 'greatest daylight robbery' all but forgotten". The Statesman. 25 August 2013. Archived from the original on 21 September 2016.

[Sarkar147-2] Sarkar 1983, p. 147 In Bengal, the revolutionaries achieved a major success in August 1914, when a large consignment of 50 Mauser pistols and 46,000 rounds of ammunition was appropriated by them from the Rodda firm in Calcutta through a sympathetic employee.

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