Bhagat Singh was convicted of the murder of John Saunders and Channan Singh, and hanged in March 1931, aged 23. He became a popular folk hero after his death.

Bhagat Singh

1. Bhagat Singh , a Sandhu Sikh Jat , was born in 1907 to Kishan Singh  and Vidyavati at Chak No. 105 GB, Banga village, Jaranwala Tehsil in the Lyallpur district of the Punjab Province of British India. ... Unlike many Sikhs of his age,  Singh  did not attend the Khalsa High School in Lahore.

2. Bhagat Singh , a Sandhu Sikh Jat , was born in 1907 to Kishan Singh  and Vidyavati at Chak No. 105 GB, Banga village, Jaranwala Tehsil in the Lyallpur district of the Punjab Province of British India. ... Unlike many Sikhs of his age,  Singh  did not attend the Khalsa High School in Lahore.

3. Education He received his primary education from the Dayanand Anglo-Vedic High School, an Arya Samaji institution. Inspired by father and uncles, he grew up to be a patriotic young man and decided to dedicate his life to the independence movement. He became disillusioned with Gandhi’s philosophy of non-violence and joined the Young Revolutionary Movement and began to advocate for the violent overthrow of the British Government in India.

4. Childhood & Early Life: Bhagat Singh was born in September 1907 in Banga , Jaranwala Tehsil , Lyallpur district, Punjab, British India, into a family of Punjabi Sikhs. His father and two of his uncles were members of the Ghadar Party and were actively involved in the Indian independence struggle. They were in jail at the time of Bhagat Singh’s birth due to their participation in revolutionary activities. He received his primary education from the Dayanand Anglo-Vedic High School, an Arya Samaji institution. Inspired by father and uncles, he grew up to be a patriotic young man and decided to dedicate his life to the independence movement. He became disillusioned with Gandhi’s philosophy of nonviolence and joined the Young Revolutionary Movement and began to advocate for the violent overthrow of the British Government in India. He joined the National College in Lahore in 1923. His participation in the freedom struggle intensified during this period. He joined the Hindustan Republican Association which had prominent leaders like Chandrashekhar Azad, Ram Prasad Bismil and Shahid Ashfaqallah Khan who further kindled his patriotic fervor. The name of the organization was changed to Hindustan Socialist Republican Association (HSRA) at Singh's insistence in 1928.

5. Revolutionary Activities & Martyrdom The British government set up the Simon Commission to report on the political situation in India in 1928. The commission did not include even a single Indian as its member and this greatly agitated the Indian leaders and led to protests across the country by Indian political parties. The commission visited Lahore on 30 October 1928. Lala Lajpat Rai , a prominent leader of the Indian independence movement, led a silent march in protest against the Commission.

6. On April 8, 1929 Bhagat Singh and Batukeshwar Dutt threw bombs in the Central Assembly Hall while the Assembly was in session. The bombs did not hurt anyone. After throwing the bombs, Bhagat Singh and Batukeshwar Dutt , deliberately courted arrest by refusing to run away from the scene. During his trial, Bhagat Singh refused to employ any defence counsel. In jail, he went on hunger strike to protest the inhuman treatment of fellow-political prisoners by jail authorities. On October 7, 1930 Bhagat Singh, Sukh Dev and Raj Guru were awarded death sentence by a special tribunal. Despite great popular pressure and numerous appeals by political leaders of India, Bhagat Singh and his associates were hanged in the early hours of March 23, 1931 .