Pakistan’s Punjab government has sought more time from the High Court on the issue of renaming Lahore’s Shadman Chowk after freedom fighter Bhagat Singh.
The Lahore High Court (LHC), headed by Justice Shams Mahmood Mirza, was hearing a petition filed by Pakistan’s Bhagat Singh Memorial Foundation. The petition had sought contempt proceedings against three state and district government officials for failing to comply with a court order issued in 2018 to rename Shadman Chowk after Bhagat Singh.
In 2018, the LHC had directed the government to rename Shadman Chowk in Lahore after Bhagat Singh, who was hanged 93 years ago. In a recent hearing, Imran Khan, Additional Solicitor General, Government of Punjab, asked the court for more time to issue notification regarding the name change. Advocate Khalid Zama Kakar, the petitioner’s lawyer, argued that there were already long delays in the matter.
The court granted the government’s request for an extension and postponed the hearing until June 7. The state and district governments were facing contempt charges for willfully disobeying the LHC’s order to change the name of the chowk in 2018.
Bhagat Singh, a prominent figure in the Indian subcontinent’s independence struggle, was executed by the British rulers on March 23, 1931, along with Shivaram Rajguru and Sukhdev Thapar, after being found guilty of conspiracy to dissent. It was done.
Singh was initially sentenced to life in prison, but was later sentenced to death in another “trumped up case.” Bhagat Singh is revered in the subcontinent not only by Sikhs and Hindus but also by Muslims.
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