Lahore HC starts hearing on plea for Bhagat Singh’s statue

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Hoshiarpur, February 22

The Lahore High Court today had the opening hearing of the case filed by the Shaheed Bhagat Singh Memorial Foundation, Pakistan, seeking the naming of Shadman Chowk in Lahore after the martyr and installation of his statue there. The court fixed March 5 the next date of hearing of the case clubbing it with a similar case on the similar issue.

The case was filed yesterday by the Shaheed Bhagat Singh Memorial Foundation, Pakistan, through its chairman Imtiaz Rashid Qureshi. The court had accepted the petition for hearing under urgent matters.

Qureshi told The Tribune over phone from Pakistan that Justice Shahid Jameel Khan of the Lahore High Court heard the case today. On behalf of the foundation, Abdul Rasheed Qureshi, advocate, Supreme Court, assisted by Mehboob Hasan Chaudhry and Shahbaz Rashid Qureshi, advocates, High Court, pleaded the case.

“Justice Khan in his order said another case on the similar issue is pending before the court so it will be appropriate to hear both the cases together. Justice Khan has fixed next hearing of the case on March 5 along with the previous case,” he said.

Shadman Chowk was built over the place where Bhagat Singh, Rajguru and Sukhdev were hanged on March 23, 1931, in Lahore Jail.

Qureshi said, “We are confident that soon Bhagat Singh will get the due honour. He was a great revolutionary of the subcontinent and he is as much of Pakistan as he is of India. We have requested the Pakistan Government that Shaheed Bhagat Singh should be rewarded with Pakistan’s highest gallantry award, Nishan-a-Haider.”