28/09/2023
What's so special about today?
It's Shaheed Bhagat Singhs birthday!
He was born in 1907, and he was hanged on the 23rd of March in 1931.
'Singh, Rajguru and Sukhdev were sentenced to death in the Lahore conspiracy case and ordered to be hanged on 24 March 1931. The schedule was moved forward by 11 hours and the three were hanged on 23 March 1931 at 7:30 pm in the Lahore jail. It is reported that no magistrate at the time was willing to supervise Singh's hanging as was required by law. The ex*****on was supervised instead by an honorary judge, who also signed the three death warrants, as their original warrants had expired.
The jail authorities then broke a hole in the rear wall of the jail, removed the bodies, and secretly cremated the three men under cover of darkness outside Ganda Singh Wala village, and then threw the ashes into the Sutlej river, about 10 kilometres from Ferozepore.'
