Mohan Ranade participated in Goa liberation movement, and spent fourteen years in Portuguese jail for the premeditated murder of a Goan policeman named Custodio Fernandes.
16 Facts About Mohan Ranade
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Mohan Ranade adopted the pseudonym, Mohan Ranade when he joined the Goa liberation movement.
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Mohan Ranade entered Goa illegally again in 1950 under the false name of Mohan Ranade, with the assistance of Vishnupant Vaze, and again began working as a Marathi language teacher for a small private group of Hindu students in Savoi Verem.
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Mohan Ranade used to encourage his students to act in retaliation against the Portuguese, but was again arrested and deported for entering Goa illegally.
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Mohan Ranade joined the militant organization, Azad Gomantak dal in 1953.
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Mohan Ranade participated in a number of armed robberies on police and customs outposts, as well as mines, in order to steal weapons and explosives for his organization.
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On 18 August 1955, Mohan Ranade, infuriated by the action of a policeman Custodio Fernandes of Savoi Verem, for pulling down the Indian Tricolor and stamping on it, went at night to his house, called out to him and then shot him dead.
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On 22 October 1955, Mohan Ranade attempted an armed robbery on the Betim Police Station, with an intention to loot the weapons.
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Mohan Ranade was incarcerated at the Caxias prison near Lisbon where he was kept in solitary confinement for the first six years.
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Mohan Ranade was released in January 1969, more than seven years after the Annexation of Goa by India in December 1961, and having served almost fourteen years in prison.
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Mohan Ranade was honoured with Padma Shri in 2001 and with the Sangli Bhushan in 2006.
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Mohan Ranade was awarded the Goa Puraskar in 1986 for his social work.
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Mohan Ranade authored two books on the Goa Liberation Movement: Struggle Unfinished and Satiche Vaan.
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Mohan Ranade ran a charitable organisation in Pune that sponsors education of students from economically backward backgrounds.
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Mohan Ranade was chairman of the Goa Red Cross for over five years.
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Mohan Ranade spent his later years in the city of Pune where he died on June 25,2019.