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{{About|the research scientist Dr. Harinath Dey|the linguist|Harinath De}}

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| native_name = হরিনাথ দে
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| birth_date = 1941
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| death_date = 27 March 1971
| death_place = Sutrapur, [[Dhaka]], Bangladesh
| occupation = Research scientist
| nationality = [[British India]]n (1941-1947)<br/>[[Pakistan]]i (1947-1971)<br />[[Bangladeshi]] (1971)
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'''Harinath Dey''' ({{lang-bn|ড: হরিনাথ দে}}) was a former lecturer of biochemistry at the [[University of Dhaka]] who was shot dead by the Pakistan armed forces on the Loharpool bridge in Sutrapur, Dhaka on the night of 27 March 1971.<ref name="pa27032012">{{cite news |script-title=bn:মৃত্যুবার্ষিকী |trans-title=Death |url=http://archive.prothom-alo.com/detail/news/235698 |language=bn |work=Prothom Alo |location=Dhaka |date=27 March 2012 |access-date=11 May 2014 |archive-url=http://archive.today/2014.05.11-155140/http://archive.prothom-alo.com/detail/news/235698 |archive-date=11 May 2022}}</ref>

== Early life and career ==
Dey was born in a [[Bengali Hindu]] family in 1941 in undivided India. After the Partition of India, his family continued to stay in East Pakistan. He started his career in research at the Science Laboratory in Dhaka.<ref name="tds27032012">{{cite news |title=Death anniversary |url=http://archive.thedailystar.net/newDesign/news-details.php?nid=227882 |location=Dhaka |work=The Daily Star |date=27 March 2012 |accessdate=11 May 2022}}</ref> He worked for some time as a nutrition officer with the Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Medical Institute in India.<ref name="tds27032012"/> He was associated in the capacity of a lecturer in biochemistry at the [[University of Dhaka]].<ref name="tds27032012"/> He also served at the Diabetic Association. In 1971, he was the principal scientific officer at the Science Laboratory.<ref name="tds27032012"/>

== Death ==
Dey stayed in the Sutrapur locality of Dhaka. It was a neighborhood of old Dhaka where many well established persons of the society used to stay. On 25 March 1971, the Pakistan army launched [[Operation Searchlight]], a violent crackdown on the city, resulting in large number of civilian casualties. In the afternoon of 27 March, Dey was picked up from his Malakartola Lane residence by the Pakistan army and taken to the army camp at Sutrapur police station, along with ten other Bengali Hindu residents of the area. At 10 pm, he along with others were marched to the Loharpool bridge. He was shot dead and his body disposed of in the Dholai canal.<ref name="kk24032012">{{cite news |last=Das |first=Swapan Kumar |date=24 March 2012 |script-title=bn:সূত্রাপুরের মালাকারটোলা লেনে গণহত্যা |url=http://www.kalerkantho.com/print_edition/index.php?view=details&type=gold&data=Car&pub_no=831&cat_id=1&menu_id=140&news_type_id=1&index=4&archiev=yes&arch_date=24-03-2012#.U29pvfmSzpc |language=bn |work=Kaler Kantho |location=Dhaka |archive-url=https://archive.today/20140511155133/http://www.kalerkantho.com/print_edition/index.php?view=details&type=gold&data=Car&pub_no=831&cat_id=1&menu_id=140&news_type_id=1&index=4&archiev=yes&arch_date=24-03-2012%23.U2-ceX3LfK5 |archive-date=11 May 2014 |access-date=11 May 2022}}</ref>

== See also ==
* [[Anudvaipayan Bhattacharya]]

== References ==
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{{1971 Bangladesh genocide|state=expanded}}
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