Bhagat Singh (file photo)
Petitioner Imtiaz Rashid Qureshi, chairman of the Bhagat Singh Memorial Foundation, had filed a petition seeking an attested copy of the First Information Report (FIR) registered against Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev and Rajguru for allegedly killing then SSP John P Saunders.
Bhagat Singh was awarded the death sentence for killing Saunders and he was subsequently hanged at Shadman Chowk in Lahore in 1931, aged just 23.
Over eight decades after his hanging, the Lahore police searched through the record of the Anarkali police station on the court's order and managed to find the FIR of the murder of Saunders.
Written in Urdu the FIR was registered with the Anarkali police station on December 17, 1928 at 4.30 pm against two 'unknown gunmen'.
A police official of Anarkali police was the complainant of the case.
The complainant-cum-eyewitness said the man he followed was "five feet 5 inch, had Hindu face, small moustache, having slim and strong body, wearing white trouser (pyjama) and grey shirt (kurta) and also wearing small black christi-like hat".
The case was registered under sections 302, 1201 and 109 of Indian Penal Code.
An inspector of Lahore police's legal branch yesterday handed over the attested copy of the FIR in a sealed envelope to additional district and sessions judge (Lahore) Tariq Mahmood Zargham.
A copy of the FIR is also available with PTI.
The court handed Qureshi a copy of the FIR. Qureshi said special judges of tribunal handling Bhagat Singh's case awarded death sentence to him without hearing 450 witnesses of the case.
Bhagat Singh's lawyers were not given the opportunity of cross-questioning them, he said.
Qureshi has also filed a petition in the Lahore High Court seeking reopening of Bhagat Singh's case.
"I want to establish Bhagat Singh's innocence in the Saunders case," he said.
The Lahore High Court has referred the case to the chief justice for constitution of a larger bench to hear the case.
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