Bhagat Singh's Martyrdom Day March 23

 

One of the most influential revolutionaries of the Indian independence movement, Bhagat Singh, was hanged on March 23, 1931 at 7:30 PM in Lahore jail with his comrades Shivaram Rajguru and Sukhdev Thapar.

March 23, every year, is therefore, observed as the Martyrdom day (Shaheedi Divas) of  Shaheed Bhagat Singh in India.

Bhagat Singh, a Sandhu Jat, was born in September 1907 to a Sikh family in Banga village, Jaranwala Tehsil in the Lyallpur district of the Punjab Province of British India (now in Pakistan). His family had earlier been involved in revolutionary activities against the British rule in the country

Bhagat Singh was sentenced to death in the Lahore conspiracy case and ordered to be hanged on March 24, 1931. That schedule was moved forward by 11 hours and he was hanged on March 23, 1931 at 7:30 PM. It is reported that no magistrate of the time was willing to supervise his hanging as was required by law