This FIR, written in Urdu, was lodged at Anarkali police station on December 17, 1928, at 4.30 pm against two ‘unknown gunmen’. Qureshi said that the special judges handling Bhagat Singh’s case sentenced him to death without hearing 450 witnesses in the case. He said that Singh’s lawyers were not even given a chance to cross-examine.
A Pakistani court on Saturday expressed its objection to a petition to reopen the case of freedom fighter Bhagat Singh’s conviction in 1931. The petition also requested that Bhagat Singh be honored with the National Award posthumously. Singh was hanged along with his comrades Rajguru and Sukhdev on March 23, 1931, after being tried on charges of conspiring against British rule. Singh was initially given life imprisonment, but was later given death sentence in another “fabricated case”.
The Lahore High Court on Saturday took exception to the reopening of a case filed almost a decade ago and the formation of a larger bench to hear the petition seeking quashing of Singh’s conviction following the principles of review. Is. Bhagat Singh Memorial Foundation chairman and petitioner lawyer Imtiaz Rashid Qureshi told PTI, “The Lahore High Court on Saturday took exception to the reopening of the Bhagat Singh case and constitution of a larger bench for its speedy hearing.” The court objected that the petition was not hearable by a larger bench.
Qureshi said that this petition of a committee of senior lawyers has been pending in the High Court for a decade. “It has been pending since Justice Shujaat Ali Khan referred the matter to the Chief Justice for constituting a larger bench in 2013,” he said. The petition said that Bhagat Singh fought for the independence of the subcontinent. Fought the battle. It says Singh is revered in the subcontinent not only by Sikhs and Hindus but also by Muslims. Pakistan’s founder Muhammad Ali Jinnah paid tribute to Singh twice during his speech in the Central embly.
“This is a matter of national importance and should be decided before a full bench,” Qureshi argued. He said Singh was not named in the FIR for the murder of British police officer John P. Sanders, for which he was booked. Death sentence was given. About a decade ago, on the orders of the court, Lahore Police had searched the records of Anarkali police station and succeeded in finding the FIR of Sanders’ murder.
This FIR, written in Urdu, was lodged at Anarkali police station on December 17, 1928, at 4.30 pm against two ‘unknown gunmen’. Qureshi said that the special judges handling Bhagat Singh’s case sentenced him to death without hearing 450 witnesses in the case. He said that Singh’s lawyers were not even given a chance to cross-examine.
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