Happy Birth Day Bhaghat Singh
He was killed by Court in 1931 during Raj
Born in a Sindhu Jat family at 28th September 1907 and killed by court orders under the pressure of British Indian establishment at 23rd March 1931, Bhaghat Singh is still alive among people. He had exposed colonialism in his life and his hanging exposed so-called justice and rule of law well.
آج بھگت سنگھ شہید کا 112 واں جنم دیہاڑ ہے۔ اس پنجابی
نوجوان کا عدالتی قتل ، برٹش دور کی بدترین مثالوں میں سے ایک ہے۔
انگریزوں کے ظالمانہ قبضے کے خلاف علمِ بغاوت بلند کرنے
والوں میں ایک معتبر نام۔۔۔پنجاب کے ضلع فیصل آباد کی تحصیل جڑانوالہ کے چک 105 بنگہ
میں 1907 کو پیدا ہونے والے بھگت سنگھ کا
ہے۔
سندھو جٹوں کے گھر پیدا ہونے والے اس نوجوان کو بھری جوانی میں ایک بدترین عدالتی
فیصلے کے بعد محض 24 سال کی عمر میں برٹش سٹیبلشمنٹ نے پھانسی چڑھا دیا تھا۔
اسکی پھانسی سے 18 دن قبل انگریز وائسرائےلارڈ ارون اور مہاتما گاندھی میں سیاسی
قیدیوں کی رہائی کا معاہدہ گاندھی ارون
پیکٹ ہوا تھا، مگر انصاف کے دعویدار انگریزوں نے بھگت سنگھ اور اسکے
ساتھیوں کو سیاسی قیدی ماننے سے انکار کر دیا اور سیاسی قیدیوں کو چھڑوانے والے
بھی چپ رہے۔۔۔ بھگت سنگھ کے مقدمے میں قائداعظم نے کہا تھا کہ بھگت سنگھ کیس میں
انصاف کے تقاضوں کو بالائے طاق رکھا گیا ہے۔ بھگت سنگھ ایک سیاسی قیدی ہے۔۔۔۔
انگریز سرکار نے بھگت سنگھ کو پھانسی دینے کے لیے ایک
آرڈیننس کا سہارا لیتے ہوئےکمیشن بنایا۔۔۔
2011 میں بھارتی سپریم کورٹ نے یہ فیصلہ دے کر کہ بھگت سنگھ کا مقدمہ کریمنل
لاء کی بد ترین مثال تھا ۔۔۔قائداعظم کی تقلید کر دی۔۔۔۔ بھگت سنگھ کو 23 مارچ
1931 کو بہادر اور انصاف پسند انگریز
سرکار نے خفیہ طریقے سے پھانسی دے دی۔۔۔۔ مگر یہ پھانسی برطانوی
راج کے نظامِ انصاف پر بدترین دھبہ ثابت ہوئی۔۔۔۔
بھگت سنگھ آج بھی زندہ ہے۔
In September 1929, Jinnah representing Bombay city in the Assembly, spoke powerfully, opposing this bill. Calling the trial a “farce” and a “travesty of justice”, he said that if the trial continued in the absence of the accused he “stands already condemned”. He also pointed out that Singh was a political prisoner and how the government was making a mistake by treating him a common criminal.
“Well, you know perfectly well that these men are determined to die. It is not a joke. I ask the honourable law member to realise that it is not everybody who can go on starving himself to death. Try it for a little while and you will see…. The man who goes on hunger strike has a soul. He is moved by that soul and he believes in the justice of his cause; he is not an ordinary criminal who is guilty of cold-blooded, sordid, wicked crime.”
The next day, Jinnah, the highest-paid lawyer in India at the time, took the Raj to task on the legality of Singh’s trial:
“It seems to me, Sir, that the great and fundamental doctrine of British jurisprudence, which is incorporated and codified in the Penal Code and the Criminal Procedure Code has very wisely not made such an absurd provision in the criminal law of this country and I am not satisfied that there is a lacuna in our system of criminal law.”
The outrage over the show trial of Singh made the Assembly reject this bill. This rejection by a puppet Assembly didn’t really mean much in actual terms though. The British Indian government simply ignored the House and introduced the amendment as an ordinance.
Judicial murder
Bhagat Singh researcher AG Noorani described the legal farce that followed after this:
“Having lost in the Assembly, the governor-general promulgated an ordinance, which was not subject to approval by the Assembly and expired after six months. It set up a tribunal to try the case. The entire trial was vitiated by flaws. A member of the tribunal, Justice Syed Agha Haider, was removed from the tribunal because, unlike the two European judges, he questioned the witnesses closely and repeatedly dissociated himself in writing from their orders. The tribunal which pronounced death sentences on the accused was itself under a sentence of death. The judges lost their office after six months. The accused were largely unrepresented by counsel and there was no right of appeal. The high court bar association set up a committee to consider the validity of the ordinance. Its report on June 19, 1930, found it to be 'invalid'.”
Bhagat Singh was secretly hanged on March 23, 1931 in Lahore. In 2011, the Supreme Court of India, echoing Jinnah, said that Singh’s trial was “contrary to the fundamental doctrine of criminal jurisprudence” since there was no opportunity for the accused to defend themselves.
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