Chitta Ranjan Dutta

Chitta Ranjan Dutta, Bir Uttom (Bengali: চিত্তরঞ্জন দত্ত) (1 January 1927 – 24 August 2020), also known as C R Dutta, was a Bangladeshi Major-General of the Bangladesh Army. He was a key commander of the Mukti Bahini during the Bangladesh Liberation War.

After independence, he was the armed forces commander in Rangpur and later went on to become the first Director-General of the Bangladesh Rifles (present-day Border Guards Bangladesh) in 1973.

Dutta was a well known minority rights advocate in Bangladesh. He was also the president of the Bangladesh Hindu Buddhist Christian Unity Council.

Dutta died at a hospital in Boca Raton, Florida on 24 August 2020 after falling at his home, aged 93.^[1]