Palghar District in Maharashtra
Ramchandra Churi, Govind Thakur, Kashinath Pagdare, Ramprasad Tevari, and Sukur More were martyrs who hailed from Maharashtra's Palghar district. In August 1942, these five laid down their lives in response to Gandhiji's clarion call to 'Do or Die.'
Following Gandhi's rallying cry, these freedom fighters led a morcha (an organized march), in which people from Shirgaon, Dhansar, Tembhode, Alyali, Murbhe, Ucheli, Palmtembhi, Kharekuran, Popurva, Unbhat, Satpati, and other villages from the Palghar-area participated. Not surprisingly, the British authorities attempted to suppress it. They repeatedly warned the participants to back down. When the protestors refused to heed the warnings, the police opened fire, and in the carnage, all five of them were killed at the Hutatma Chowk. They were barely 20 years old when this incident occurred.
There is very little recorded history about these five nationalists. In Martyr Square (Palghar), a memorial called the Panch Batti (5 lights), was built in their honour. Every year the locals celebrate 14 August as Martyrs' Day (Hutatma Divas). In a recent development, after a gap of nearly 80 years, the face of Ramchandra Churi (the only one of the five people who had no image or identification) was approved by the authorities after much research. According to reports, his oil painting was created with the assistance of family members and villagers and was unveiled in August 2020.
Source: Indian Culture Portal