A plan to rename Shadman Chowk in Lahore metropolis after Bhagat Singh and set up his statue there was scrapped in gentle of an opinion by a retired navy official, the district authorities of the capital of Pakistan’s Punjab province has instructed the excessive court docket right here.
In a written response submitted to the Lahore Excessive Courtroom (LHC) on Friday by Assistant Advocate Normal Asghar Leghari, severe allegations had been levelled towards the liberty fighter.
“A proposed plan of the town district authorities Lahore to call Shadman Chowk after Bhagat Singh and place his statue there was scrapped in gentle of an statement submitted by Commodore (retd.) Tariq Majeed,” the Metropolitan Company of Lahore stated in a reply to a contempt petition filed by Bhagat Singh Memorial Basis Pakistan Chairman Imtiaz Rasheed Qureshi within the LHC.
It stated Majeed, engaged by the federal government in a committee to rename Shadman Chowk after Singh, in his observations claimed that Singh “was not a revolutionary however a felony, in immediately’s phrases he was a terrorist, he killed a British police officer, and for this crime, he was hanged together with two accomplices”.
Majeed really helpful to the federal government that the Shadman Chowk should not be named Bhagat Singh Chowk and his statue shouldn’t be put in there.
The report additional says Singh was influenced by “spiritual leaders hostile to Muslims and the NGO — Bhagat Singh Basis — is working towards Islamic ideology and Pakistani tradition, (and) it must be banned”.
“Don’t the officers of the muse, who name themselves Muslims, know that it isn’t acceptable to call a spot after an atheist in Pakistan and that Islam prohibits human statues?” it requested.
In response to the report, Qureshi instructed PTI on Sunday that Bhagat Singh was declared an important revolutionary, freedom fighter and martyr undisputedly.
“I’ll ship a authorized discover to retired Commodore Majeed for levelling severe allegations towards the Bhagat Singh Basis and contest his stance on Bhagat Singh,” he stated.
Qureshi has made the district authorities, DC Lahore, Chief Secretary Punjab and Administrator Metropolis District Authorities events in a contempt of court docket petition filed by means of Advocate Khalid Zaman Khan Kakar, by which it was stated that LHC Justice Shahid Jamil Khan had issued directions to the involved authorities on September 5, 2018, to take steps to call Shadman Chowk after Bhagat Singh, however the court docket order has not been carried out but.
LHC Justice Shams Mehmood Mirza adjourned the listening to of the contempt plea till Jan 17, 2025, as a result of unavailability of the petitioner’s counsel.
Singh was hanged alongside together with his two comrades – Rajguru and Sukhdev – by British rulers on March 23, 1931, on the age of 23 in Lahore, after being tried underneath costs for hatching a conspiracy towards the colonial authorities and allegedly killing British police officer John P Saunders.
