Rare documents and objects, related to the famous trial and hanging of freedom fighter Bhagat Singh and his two comrades in 1930 have been pieced together for an exhibition.
NEW DELHI: Rare documents and objects, related to the famous trial and hanging of freedom fighter Bhagat Singh and his two comrades in 1930 have been pieced together for an exhibition to showcase the developments related to the Lahore Conspiracy Case.
"The Exhibition on the Trial of Bhagat Singh" opened on Saturday by the Chief Justice of India K G Balakrishnan at Supreme Court Museum showcases the documents and materials related to the nearly eight-decade-old case in which Bhagat Singh, Rajguru and Sukhdev were hanged after 15 months of trial by the Special Tribunal in 1930.
"Exhibition on freedom fighters is thrilling and exciting. Every Indian should feel proud of Bhagat Singhji, the great son of India," the CJI wrote in the visitors' book placed in the Museum.
Some members of the Bhagat Singh's family were present when the exhibition was inaugurated in presence of judges and officials of the apex court.
The exhibition, originally planned for March last week, got delayed as rare documents related to the trial were brought from Pakistan, an apex court official said.
"Though it took some time, there was no hassle in procuring the documents after the Supreme Court initiated talks with its counterpart in Pakistan," he said.
Organisers of the exhibition, second in the series after the Alipore Bomb Conspiracy case organised two years ago, faced some problems when the efforts of the Indian High Commission to procure the material from the Lahore Central Jail did not materialise.
Once the initial hurdles were overcome, the curators of the museum worked overtime and visited places like Amritsar, Chandigarh, Navashahar in Punjab to collect relevant documents and materials for the exhibition.
The exhibition will offer history lovers and other visitors a chance to catch a glimpse of rare objects, documents, files, jail diary, judgement files, jail register, FIR, bomb shells, contemporary newspapers, clothes, books, watches, shoes and other things associated with the three martyrs.
Through the exhibition, an effort has been made to display the plan by the revolutionaries to assassinate British Police officer J P Saunders, who was responsible for the death of Lala Lajpat Rai in a lathicharge along with another officer J A Scott in 1928.
When the shot was fired Saunders was mistaken for Scott.
Police had got the details of Saunders' assassination when Bhagat Singh, along with Batukeshwar Dutt, was facing trial for throwing bombs in the Central Legislative Assembly in Delhi on April 8, 1929 in protest against the two draconian Bills -- Public Safety Bill and the Trade Disputes Bill.
The trial in the Lahore Conspiracy Case had started on July 10, 1929 and continued for over a year upto October 7, 1930.
The exhibition is expected to remind visitors how Bhagat Singh and his comrades turned the court into a forum for revolutionary propaganda.
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