LAHORE: Hearing of two identical petitions seeking reopening of cases of Ghazi Ilamuddin Shaheed and Bhagat Singh has been fixed before a division bench of the Lahore High Court.
The bench comprising Justice Khalid Mahmood Khan and Justice Shahid Bilal Hassan will resume hearing of the petitions on Feb 3.
Imtiaz Rasheed Qureshi of Bhagat Singh Memorial Foundation filed an application for early hearing of the petitions.
In one petition, Mr Qureshi said Bhagat Singh was a freedom fighter and fought for independence of sub-continent. He said Singh was hanged by British rulers on March 23, 1931, after being tried under charges of hatching a conspiracy against the regime. He said Singh was initially jailed for life but later awarded death sentence in another ‘fabricated’ case.
In the other petition, Mr Qureshi on behalf of Save Judiciary Committee stated that a prejudiced bench comprising the then LHC non-Muslim judges awarded death sentence to Ghazi Ilamuddin Shaheed in 1929 for killing a Hindu publisher for disgracing Prophet Muhammad (P.B.U.H).
In both cases, the petitioner wanted the court to set aside the sentences of Ghazi and Singh by exercising principles of review and order the government to honour them with posthumous state awards.
The last hearing of the petitions was held in May 2013 when a single bench had referred the matter to the chief justice for the constitution of a larger bench.http://www.dawn.com/news/1236526/ilamuddin-and-bhagat-cases-hearing-on-3rd
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