Son of Saradashankar Sarkar(1890 -1942) Bibhutibhushan Sarkar was born in Sutragarh village in the Shantipur subdivision of the Nadia district of West Bengal. Nothing is known about his early life and education.
Their family had later migrated to the forest-clad hilly village of Chhenda Pathar near Ranibandh in the Bankura district of West Bengal, where he organized a secret society, believed to be the place of martyr Kshudiram Bose’s first initiation into the revolutionary ideology. Bibhutibhushan was inducted into the Yugantar group by Naren Gosain, the revolutionary turned government approver in the Manicktala Bomb Case.
An inner circle member, Bibhutibhushan accompanied Barindrakumar Ghosh in the planned attack on Lieutenant Governor Andrew Fraser. On 6 December 1907, near Narayangarh in Midnapore, Barindrakumar, Prafulla Chaki, and Bibhutibhushan threw a bomb, made by Hemchandra Kanungo, on the train in which Andrew Fraser was travelling. Mr. Fraser was only marginally injured and a group of Marathi coolies, who were working on the tracks, were arrested.
He took shelter in the Manicktala Garden House and turned it into a makeshift manufactory of improvised bombs. He later went to Dhidhiria hill of Deoghar for testing bombs with Ullaskar, Barindrakumar, and Prafulla Chakraborty. Prafulla threw the bomb on the hill wall causing a huge blast that killed him on the spot; Ullaskar Datt was also injured, but he recovered within a few days.
Bibhutibhushan was arrested much later while Calcutta police commissioner Charles Tegart was on tour to the Bankura district. Brought to Calcutta, he was tried on a number of charges, Narayangarh, Maniktala, and Deoghar Bomb Case. The court sentenced him to ten years of rigorous imprisonment with transportation to Andaman.