Bhagat Singh’s sister passes away
Tuesday, 30/09/2014
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Chandigarh: Revolutionary and freedom fighter Bhagat Singh’s younger sister Parkash Kaur has died in Canada, a family member said, here on Monday. Kaur, 96, was the only surviving member of the martyr’s immediate family. She was living in Toronto. Her son-in-law Harbhajan Dingh Dhatt, who lives near Hoshiarpur in Punjab, said Kaur passed away on late Sunday. Kaur, in recent years, had pursued the case of the killing of Kuljit Singh Dhatt, brother of her son-in-law, by Punjab Police in a staged shootout.
The police officers involved were, earlier this year, convicted by a court. Bhagat Singh has been one of the most influential revolutionaries in the Indian independence movement against the British rule. He was awarded capital punishment for killing a British police officer in Lahore in 1928. He was hanged to death in March, 1931
