Reopening cases: ‘Declare Bhagat Singh innocent’
Indicted and sentenced on false pretenses.
Petitioner Imtiaz Rasheed Qureshi submitted that Singh was a freedom fighter who fought for the independence of the subcontinent. PHOTO: FILE
LAHORE:
A petition was filed on Tuesday in the Lahore High Court to reopen the case of Bhagat Singh, who was hanged in 1930.
Petitioner Imtiaz Rasheed Qureshi submitted that Singh was a freedom fighter who fought for the independence of the subcontinent. He said he was first given life imprisonment and later was given a death sentence. He said he was sentenced in a false case. The petitioner said that the then-governor had constituted a tribunal through an ordinance which was valid for four months. He said the tribunal started its proceedings six days prior to the lapse of its terms. Qureshi said the tribunal neither recorded the testimony of 450 witnesses nor listened to Singh’s side. He said later Singh and his two companions, Sukhdev and Rajguru, were hanged. He said an appeal filed against the punishment in London was dismissed.
He requested the court to reopen the case and declare him innocent.
Published in The Express Tribune, April 10th, 2013.
A petition was filed on Tuesday in the Lahore High Court to reopen the case of Bhagat Singh, who was hanged in 1930.
Petitioner Imtiaz Rasheed Qureshi submitted that Singh was a freedom fighter who fought for the independence of the subcontinent. He said he was first given life imprisonment and later was given a death sentence. He said he was sentenced in a false case. The petitioner said that the then-governor had constituted a tribunal through an ordinance which was valid for four months. He said the tribunal started its proceedings six days prior to the lapse of its terms. Qureshi said the tribunal neither recorded the testimony of 450 witnesses nor listened to Singh’s side. He said later Singh and his two companions, Sukhdev and Rajguru, were hanged. He said an appeal filed against the punishment in London was dismissed.
He requested the court to reopen the case and declare him innocent.
Published in The Express Tribune, April 10th, 2013.