Chitra Katha

Shaheed Bhagat SinghShaheed-e-Azam

On 8 April 1929 he and Batukeshwar Dutt threw harmless bombs in the Central Legislative Assembly in Delhi and courted arrest; he was hanged in Lahore on 23 March 1931.

28 September 1907 – 23 March 1931

The full life

1Some records give his birth date as 27 September 1907.

2Assembly bomb with Batukeshwar Dutt: 8 April 1929.Bhagat Singh · Batukeshwar Dutt

3Sentenced to death on 7 October 1930.Bhagat Singh · The court

4Hanged with Rajguru and Sukhdev on 23 March 1931; the day is kept as Shaheed Diwas.Rajguru · Bhagat Singh · Sukhdev

5Founded the Naujawan Bharat Sabha at Lahore in 1926.Bhagat Singh · The people

6Cremated near Hussainiwala on the Sutlej, now the National Martyrs Memorial.Bhagat Singh

Sources for these facts

Lahore Conspiracy Case records (1930)
Bhagat Singh, Why I Am an Atheist (1930)
Bhagat Singh, Jail Notebook

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