[History] Baghat Singh - Fake FIR??

Bhagat Singh: Bogus FIR

Bhagat Singh – A Quick Rewind:

1907, Sept	Born. Studied in Dayanand Anglo Vedic High School of Arya Samaj.
1919	Visited the Jalianwalla massacre site
1923	Joined National college, Lahore
1924	Runs away from home to avoid marriage
1924, Oct	HRA founded. Later renamed to HSRA [Hindustan Republican Association]. Founding members: Bismil, Jogesh Chandra and Sachin Sanyal.
1925	HRA/HSRA members loot cash of British Railways in Kakori, UP. Bismil, Ashfaqullah, Rajendra Lahiri and Roshan Singh were hanged for this.
1928, Sept	HSRA recruits new members, including Bhagat Singh.
1928, Oct-Nov	Lahore SP Scott orders brutal lathicharge on Lala Lajpat Rai during protests against Simon commission. HSRA decides to avenge his death.
1928, Dec	Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev, Azad and Rajguru plan to kill SP Scott. But they kill DSP J.P. Saunders, because Jai Gopal identified wrong official. FIR registered in the Anarkali Police station of Lahore.
1929, April	Bhagat Singh and Batukeshwar Dutt threw bomb in the Central assembly, Delhi to protest against Public safety Bill [The bill - mainly to stop Communist movement in India by cutting it off from British & foreign communist organizations]. Trade dispute bill:  jail and fine for striking workers and trade unions. After bombing, they voluntarily surrendered. (As per Britannica, He bombed to protest against Defense of India Act.) Bhagat had met Batukeshwar while working in Hindi daily “Pratap” in Kanpur For this bombing, they got life sentence. (Bhagat hanged for Saunders).
1931	Bhagat Singh wrote a pamphel “Why am I an Atheist” while in jail. From Bhagat singh’s letters and writings, we can see he was influenced by Karl Marx, Mazzini, Garibaldi, Tolstoy, Rousseau, Voltaire and Gorky.
1931, February	Gandhi-Irwin Pact (Delhi Pact). Lord Irwin rejected Gandhi’s demand of commuting Bhagat Singh’s death penalty to life sentence. Chandrasekhar Azad killed in a police encounter in Allahabad, Alfred park.
1931, March 23	Hanged along with Rajguru & Sukhdev, at Shadman Chawk, Lahore. For the Lahore Conspiracy case i.e. Murder of Saunders.

A forgotten history by many of the Indians, but why in news now?

Ø     May 2014: A Lahore lawyer found out the original FIR from Anarkali Police station. The original FIR doesn’t mention the names of any individual. But it only describes the physical looks of the assailants. So, it seems British officials would have added the names later.

Ø     Special tribunal had awarded death sentence to Bhagat Singh, without listening to 450 eye witnesses

Ø     Bhagat singh’s lawyers were not given opportunity to cross examine the eye witnesses

Ø     Special tribunal promulgated an ordinance which stopped Bhagat singh from appealing in High Court.

Ø     Now this Lahore Lawyer Imtiaz Qureshi, has filled a petition in Highcourt to prove Bhagat Singh’s innocence in this case.

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