Jahanvi Agarwal
A plea has been submitted in a Pakistani court seeking the reopening of Bhagat Singh’s case so that he might be proclaimed innocent, eight decades after he was executed by the British. The plea was submitted to the Lahore High Court by Imtiaz Rasheed Qureshi of the Save The Judiciary Committee.
He claimed that the independence fighter was a liberation fighter from the subcontinent who was executed by the British government and hanged in Lahore in March 1931.
Qureshi stated in his plea that:
“Singh was first given life imprisonment but later awarded a death sentence. He was convicted in a fake case. I therefore request the court to reopen the case and declare him innocent.”
According to Qureshi, Singh was admired by both Muslims and Sikhs and Pakistan’s founding father, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, had also praised the freedom warrior in the previous Central Legislative Assembly.