The Privy Council was used to hearing appeals from thousands of miles away in the far-flung corners of the British Empire, from the Caribbean to Australia. Also read: Where is the pistol that Bhagat Singh used to kill the British police officer? When Pritt strode into Downing Street he knew what was at stake. If he could not persuade the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council that Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev and Rajguru had been wrongly tried and convicted, they would most certainly hang in India.
Pritt knew he faced an uphill struggle. The judges were not going to be sympathetic. He must possess immense lawyerly legal skill and presence of mind to have any chance of winning on his arguments. In Bhagat Singh v. Pritt was not yet a veteran of defending conspiracy trials, but this case ensured that he would soon become one.
His reputation would span the length and breadth of the British Empire. Pritt was defending someone who had shot a twenty-one-year-old probationary police officer, John Saunders, as he came out of a police station in Lahore. He had been mistaken for James Scott, the police superintendent whom the alleged conspirators blamed for the beating to death of Lala Lajpat Rai on 17 November after he led a protest march against the Simon Commission in Lahore barely three weeks earlier.
The cold-blooded assassination of the young Saunders was hard to defend. Bhagat Singh was to be forgotten. That there was ever such a case in the heyday of the British Empire, testing its commitment to the rule of law, was to be forgotten. Almost everyone associated with the case has been forgotten.
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Whether you live in India or overseas, you can do it here. Support Our Journalism. Still we worship the bloody British agent Gandhi. Congress for over 71 years of their rule upheld Gandhi and Nehru both were agents of British. They never respected Netaji nor the martyrs like Bhaghat singh Sukdev and Rajguru. Even during the war, they wished the victory of Britain over Natsi Gernany. Is Natsi too bad for india?
There would be no fault in our attitude if we gave full support to Germany and Japan to fight against allies. Our moto was clear to get independence and to stop dividing India into two nations.
If Axis power won the battle in world war two? We would have just kicked the leaders of Muslim league like Jinnah into Arabian sea and set an example that asking for a separate nation like Pakistan was not only unjust but it humiliated the sacrifice of our martyrs. India can never forget the sacrifices made by Bhagat Singh Sukdev and Rajguru.
Can such a man be called a terrorist? He did use the gun, but very selectively, always careful to avoid any collateral damage," Mohan said. On benches in front of them, like sitting ducks, were many leading lights of the British government. Had he been a terrorist, he would have found the temptation to do them in irresistible.
But he was not out to kill any person. He did not try to escape. He sacrificed his life just to make a point," Mohan said. The point that Bhagat Singh also made in his statement to the court following the incident was this:.
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