Raja Basanta Kumar Roy was a Bengali zamindar and a scion of the Dighapatia Raj family based in Natore, Bengal.Proceedings (official Report). Volume 41 Bengal (India). Legislative Council (1933) Publisher: Bengal Secretariat Book Depot
He is notable in legal history as the primary appellant in the landmark Privy Council property case Basant Kumar Roy v. Secretary of State for India (1917). The litigation established important legal precedents regarding limitation periods, continuous possession, and the ownership of alluvial lands (churs) reformed in situ following the shifting of the Ganges river system.PRIVY COUNCIL Basant Kumar Roy and others Vs. Secretary of State for India and others P.C.A No. 30 of 1912 (Lord Parker Of Waddington, CJ, Lord Sumner, Sir John Edge and Sir Lawrence Jenkins.) 1.2.1917
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