WHY BHAGAT SINGH TOOK REVENGE AGAINST THE BRITISH OFFICER SAUNDERS?
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In December 1928, Bhagat Singh and an associate, Shivaram Rajguru, fatally shot a 21-year-old British police officer, John Saunders, in Lahore, British India, mistaking Saunders, who was still on probation, for the British police superintendent, James Scott, whom they had intended to assassinate.[4] They believed Scott was responsible for the death of a popular Indian nationalist leader Lala Lajpat Rai as a result of having ordered a lathi charge in which Rai was injured, and, two weeks thereafter, died of a heart attack. As he exited a police station on a motorcycle, Saunders was felled by a single bullet fired from across the street by Rajguru, a marksman.[5] Lying injured on the ground, he was then shot up close several times by Singh, the postmortem report showing eight bullet wounds.[6] Another associate of Singh, Chandra Shekhar Azad, shot dead an Indian police constable, Chanan Singh, who attempted to pursue Singh and Rajguru as they fled.[5]
After having escaped, Singh and his associates publicly announced avenging Lajpat Rai's death, putting up prepared posters that they had altered to show Saunders as their intended target, their own names appearing under pseudonyms.[5] Singh was thereafter on the run for many months, and no convictions resulted at the time. Surfacing again in April 1929, he and another associate, Batukeshwar Dutt, set off two improvised explosive devices inside the Central Legislative Assembly in Delhi.
Baghat Singh took revenge on Oficcer Saunders becuase he orderd the British police to lathi charge a anti-simon protest in lahore which resulted in Lala Lajpat Rai's death.