LAHORE CASE :
1928-31
BHAGAT-
RAJGURU-SUKDEV HANGED
ANOTHER BRITISH JUDICIAL SHAM ??
SARASIJ
MAJUMDER
Pak Lawyer Tries to Prove Their Innocence In
88-Year-Old Case. The Lahore police last week
submitted in a Pakistan trial court the first information report (FIR)
registered in the murder of British police official John Saunders (also known
as the Lahore conspiracy case) claiming that the case was registered against "unidentified"
persons. The court handed over a copy of the FIR to Lahore-based
advocate and petitioner cum lawyer Imtiaz Rashid Qureshi, who is chairman of
the Bhagat Singh Memorial Foundation .
Qureshi
has also moved the Lahore High Court seeking reopening of the Saunders' murder
case to prove that Bhagat Singh was "innocent".
On
the court's order the Lahore police
searched through the records of the Anarkali Police Station and managed to find
the FIR in the Saunders' murder case.
"Written in Urdu, the FIR was
registered at 4.30 p.m. on December 17, 1928, against two unknown gunmen. The
names of Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev and Rajguru are nowhere in the FIR," said
Qureshi.
Special
judges of the Tribunal handling Bhagat Singh's case awarded him the death
sentence without hearing the 450 witnesses in the case. "The martyr's
lawyers were not even given the opportunity to cross-question them. Therefore,
I want to establish Bhagat Singh's innocence in the Saunders case," he further
said.
My only worry to above—I hope there is no confession crop up in the
investigation from any of the MARTYRS—fact, or false. That will lead to some complications.
I have the complete list of the witnesses involved in the above case,
and their false stories, and affidavits, and rewards—but that I will discuss
some other time.
Qureshi's
Foundation earlier filed a petition in the Lahore High Court to rename Lahore's
Shadman Chowk -- the spot which was once a part of Lahore Jail where the trio
were hanged by the British -- as 'Shaheed Bhagat Singh Chowk'. The court in
September last year directed the Lahore district administration to decide on
the renaming of the roundabout.
History tells us that the three young
men showed neither remorse nor fear while they were being taken to the gallows
at Lahore Central Jail, but happily embraced death, shouting ‘Inqilab
Zindabad’.
In fact,
the song “Mera
Rang De Basanti Chola,” meaning “O Mother! Dye My Robe the Colour of Spring” gave
birth to one of the greatest and glorious freedom songs.. He was said to have
marched to the hangman’s chamber with this song on his lips. For him death in the cause of
freedom was like a celebration.
Bhagat
Singh was born on 27 September 1907 at the village of Banga, Lyallpur district
(now in Pakistan) the second son of Kishan Singh and Vidya Vati. Bhagat Singh
was imbued from childhood with the family’s spirit of patriotism. At the time
of his birth, his father was in jail for his connection with the Canal
Colonization Bill agitation, in which his brother, Ajit Singh (Bhagat Singh’s
uncle), took a leading part. Through his father, who was a sympathizer and
supporter of the Ghadar movement of 1914-15, Bhagat Singh became an admirer of
the leaders of the movement. The execution of Kartar Singh Sarabha made a deep
impression on the mind of the young man who vowed to dedicate his life to the
country.
In 1950,
after Independence, the land where Bhagat Singh and his companions were
cremated was procured from Pakistan and a memorial built. In March 1961, a
Shahidi Mela was held there. Every year, on 23 March, the martyr’s memory is
similarly honoured. The old memorial, destroyed in the 1971 Indo-Pak war, has
been rebuilt.
Bhagat Singh is remembered by the endearing title of
Shahid-e-Azam, the greatest of martyrs.
NOTE:--
1.0 The copy of the FIR, written in URDU—is available.
2.0 The whole copy of Judgement—200++ pages, available.
References:-
1.0https://pib.gov.in/newsite/erelcontent.aspx?relid=26383
2.0 NDTV, IE—Recent Publications.
3.0 DAWN— published from Pakistan—digital version.
4.0 I read also few other publications on same, and not listed.
Why this almost 100 years old case taken up in a Pakistan Court by a Pakistani Lawyer is a little mind boggling
ReplyDeleteAdvocate Qureshi looking for an "APOLOGY" by British Crown, and Compensation to the family, who are victimized.
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