Pakistan On Bhagat Singh: A Pakistani court on Friday (January 17) rejected the petition related to renaming Shadman Chowk Lahore after freedom fighter Bhagat Singh and installing his statue there. “Judge Shams Mahmood Mirza of the Lahore High Court today rejected the plea of Bhagat Singh Memorial Foundation Pakistan seeking renaming of Shadman Chowk Lahore after Bhagat Singh and his death sentence,” a court official told PTI. “A request was made to install his statue at the place where it was given.”
The judge rejected the petition after hearing the arguments of the lawyers of Metropolitan Corporation Lahore and the Foundation. Foundation Chairman Advocate Imtiaz Rashid Qureshi said that he will challenge the decision of Lahore High Court in the Supreme Court. Earlier, the Municipal Corporation of Lahore had told the Lahore High Court that it has canceled the proposed plan to name Shadman Chowk after Bhagat Singh and install his statue at the place where he was hanged 94 years ago. . “The proposed plan of the Lahore City District Government to name Shadman Chowk Lahore after Bhagat Singh and install his statue there is canceled due to a comment made by Commodore (R) Tariq Majeed,” the Metropolitan Corporation said in the court. Has been given.”
Instructions to change the name of Shadman Chowk
Imtiaz Rashid Qureshi had made the District Administration, Deputy Commissioner of Lahore, Chief Secretary of Punjab and Administrator of City District Administration as parties in the contempt petition of the court. The petition said that High Court Judge Shahid Jamil Khan had on September 5, 2018 issued instructions to the concerned authorities to take steps to name Shadman Chowk after Bhagat Singh, but the court order has not been implemented yet. Has been done. Lahore High Court Justice Shams Mahmood Mirza had adjourned the hearing of the contempt petition till January 17 due to the unavailability of the petitioner’s lawyer.
When was Bhagat Singh hanged?
23-year-old Bhagat Singh was hanged in Lahore on 23 March 1931 after being tried on charges of conspiring against the British government. A case was registered against Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev and Rajguru for the murder of British police officer John P Saunders. Sukhdev and Rajguru were also hanged by the British government.
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