Sukhdev Thapar
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Sukhdev Thapar (Punjabi: ਸੁਖਦੇਵ ਥਾਪਰ, سُکھدیو تھاپر) was born in Ludhiana, Punjab. He was an Indian freedom fighter who lived from 15 May 1907 to March 23, 1931) who was involved with Shaheed Bhagat Singh and Shivaram Rajguru in the killing of a British police officer J.P. Saunders in 1928 in order to take revenge for the death of veteran leader Lala Lajpat Rai due to excessive police beating.
All three were hanged in Lahore Central Jail on March 23, 1931 in the evening at 7.33 pm . The dead bodies were secretly taken away by breaking the back walls of the jail and were seceretly burnt on the banks of River Satluj at Hussainiwala about 50 miles away from Lahore. The bodies were cut into pieces to make the burial quick.
[edit] See also
- Chandrashekar Azad
- Kakori Train Robbery
- Guru Radha Kishan
- Thakur Roshan Singh
- Ferozpur
- Hindustan Socialist Republican Association
- Ram Prasad Bismil
- Bhai Parmanand
Categories:
- Punjabi people
- 1907 births
- 1931 deaths
- Revolutionary movement for Indian independence
- Executed revolutionaries
- Indian revolutionaries
- People executed by hanging
- People from Ludhiana
- 20th-century executions by the United Kingdom
- Executed Indian people
- People executed by British India
- People executed for murdering police officers
- Prisoners and detainees of British India
