PRIMARY DOSSIER № 03 / 11
BHAGAT SINGH
REVOLUTIONARY SOCIALIST · HINDUSTAN SOCIALIST REPUBLICAN ASSOCIATION
Marxist revolutionary who avenged Lala Lajpat Rai's death, threw non-lethal leaflets/smoke bombs into the Central Legislative Assembly, and was hanged at age 23 in Lahore Central Jail.
PRIMARY INVESTIGATION & FINDINGS
Assassinated British Assistant Superintendent of Police John Saunders in Lahore (17 December 1928) in response to the fatal police lathi charge on nationalist leader Lala Lajpat Rai.
Detonated two low-intensity smoke bombs in the Central Legislative Assembly in Delhi on 8 April 1929, distributing leaflets proclaiming 'To make the deaf hear' and peacefully courting arrest.
Conducted a historic 116-day hunger strike in Lahore Central Jail demanding political prisoner rights; executed by hanging alongside Sukhdev and Rajguru on 23 March 1931.
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