CHANDIGARH: Panipat-based lawyer Momin Malik, who has been representing relatives of Pakistani nationals killed in the Samjhauta train twin blasts in 2007, is writing a book titled Judicial Murder of Bhagat Singh. It will expose how the British government bypassed judicial procedure in hanging Bhagat Singh, Rajguru and Sukhdev on March 23, 1931, in Lahore Jail, for killing police officer John P Saunders. “I have nearly 2,000 pages of the petition filed in Lahore High Court by Pakistani lawyer Imtiaz Rasheed Qureshi seeking reopening of Shaheed-e-Azam Bhagat Singh’s case for killing Saunders,” Malik, who had also helped in getting back Geeta, a 14-year-old speech-impaired Indian girl stuck in Pakistan, told The Sunday Standard.
“The time period of the tribunal had lapsed, but the judges passed the order to hang them. It is clear that there was pressure from the British government and the decision was pre-decided. No lawyer represented them.”
Malik has filed a petition in Lahore High Court challenging the judicial proceeding of the case. “We have been trying to reopen the case since 2010, but it couldn’t be filed in India as the murder took place in Lahore. We had to file the case there,” he says.
After a 2014 court order, Lahore police gave a copy of the original FIR. “Bhagat Singh’s name was never mentioned in the FIR. It was registered at Anarkali police station on December 17, 1928, against two unknown gunmen,” says Malik.