“The trials and mistrials of the liberty fighters are the latter’s medals, a proof of their gallantry and of the oppressive colonial therapy they had been subjected to. From that angle, it’s troublesome to see what extra honours a retrial might confer on these heroes,” Daybreak stated in an editorial.
“However a reinvestigation would expose the details and fulfill the urge to recreate an image as near actuality as doable. It can assist to raised perceive the system because it labored then, and possibly provide comparisons with the practices of immediately. To that finish – the enriching of historic accounts with factual element – it’s worthwhile to revisit the case of Bhagat Singh and different persecuted freedom fighters,” it said.
A lawyer in Lahore has sought a reopening of the case pertaining to the homicide of British police officer John Saunders in 1928, which led to the execution of Bhagat Singh and his comrades Sukhdev and Rajguru, saying that he could be harmless of the costs.
Final week, the police had offered the lawyer with a duplicate of the FIR registered towards the three freedom fighters on Dec 17, 1928, for killing then assistant superintendent of police John P Saunders in Lahore.
“The FIR doesn’t establish those that had attacked the British police officer. This might simply imply that the complainants didn’t know who the assailants had been on the time the FIR was lodged, and that the names of the suspects may need been added later,” the editorial said.
Bhagat Singh, 23, together with Sukhdev and Rajguru had been sentenced to demise for killing Saunders and the three of them had been hanged in Lahore jail on March 23, 1931.
“The Lahore Excessive Court docket has deemed the provision of the 1928 FIR vital for contemplating the reopening of the Bhagat Singh case and has referred the case to the chief justice and the next bench,” the editorial noticed.
Revealed – Might 06, 2014 07:23 pm IST
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