In Pictures: The life and times of Bhagat Singh
The nation paid homage to freedom fighter Shaheed Bhagat Singh on his 108th birth anniversary today. A number of functions have been organised across the country to mark the occasion.
Bhagat Singh was born in a Punjabi Sikh family in September 1907 at Banga village in Lyallpur district to Kishan Singh and Vidyavati.
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Bhagat Singh joined the National College in Lahore in 1923, founded and run by Lala Lajpat Rai, and devoted himself whole-heartedly to the study of history, politics and economics.
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Bhagat Singh was arrested in connection with a bomb explosion at Lahore during Dussehra in 1927, and was imprisoned in Lahore Railway police station.
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In his early childhood days, Bhagat Singh was inspired with his family's spirit of patriotism and soon joined Mahatma Gandhi's Non-Cooperation Movement.
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Although Bhagat Singh was born into a Sikh family, he shaved his beard off to escape detection in 1929 after the killing of John Saunders, an Assistant Superintendent of Police.
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Bhagat Singh was only 23 years old, when he was sentenced to death in the Lahore conspiracy case and hanged on 23rd March, 1931 in Lahore jail.