Every year, on March 23, Shaheed Diwas is observed. This day is also known as Martyrs’ day. It is observed to mark the death anniversary of young revolutionary freedom fighters Bhagat Singh, Shivaram Hari Rajguru and Sukhdev Thapar. On this day, in 1931, they were hanged at the Lahore Central Jail in Lahore.
Bhagat Singh was a charismatic man with revolutionary ideas. He was born on September 27, 1907, in Lyallpur, which is now in Pakistan. He did several acts of violence against the British but his two acts made him a revolutionary hero of the Indian freedom struggle at the age of 23.
He also made friends who were alike him. They were Shivaram Hari Rajguru and Sukhdev Thapar, who stood by him like a wall and also fought against the Britishers along with him.
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However, things turned upside down when they plotted the assassination of the superintendent of police James Scott in Lahore to avenge the death of the writer and the nationalist leader, Lala Lajpat Rai, but they mistakenly killed assistant superintendent of police John Saunders. From that very day, things became even more difficult for them. In this article, it is mentioned why they were sentenced to death.
Why Bhagat Singh, Rajguru and Sukhdev were sentenced to death?
The incident of killing of assistant superintendent of police John Saunders took place in December 1928, and after that, they escaped to avoid arrest. Bhagat Singh escaped to Calcutta to avoid the arrest, and he even shared his beard and cut his hair.
Later, in 1929, Singh and Batukeshwar Dutt hurled bombs in the Central Assembly Hall in Delhi and raised Singh’s infamous slogan Inquilaab Zindabad. After this, they were arrested, Singh and his comrades Rajguru and Sukhdev were hanged to death on March 23, 1931, in the Lahore Conspiracy case.
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