Know more about Sukhdev:The Close aide of Bhagat Singh

New Delhi: Born on May 15,1907 Sukhdev Thapar formally known as Sukhdev is best known as an accomplice of 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. Though less popular and less written about than his best friend Bhagat Singh He was the mover of all major decisions of the revolutionary's party HSRA. Fierce patriotism and pragmatic action came together in a magical weave in Sukhdev,Shaheed Sukhdev Thapar with his motherHe was a fearless man of exceptional integrity, who cared about the smallest needs of his party and its members. He is known to have started study circles at National College, (Lahore) in order to delve into India's past as well as to scrutinize the finer aspects of world revolutionary literature and the Russian Revolution.Comrade Shiv Verma, who was awarded life imprisonment in the Lahore Conspiracy Case, writes of Sukhdev's character in his memoirs, Sansmrityiaan, that Bhagat was the political mentor of the Punjab party; Sukhdev was the organiser – one who built its edifice brick by brick. Sansmrityiaan, is preserved with the National Archives, Delhi.He was the Punjab chief of HSRA and was the prime accused in the Lahore Conspiracy Case .The first information report (FIR) of the Lahore Conspiracy Case, filed by Hamilton Harding, senior superintendent of police, in the court of R.S. Pandit, special magistrate in April 1929, mentions Sukhdev as accused number 1.Sukhdev was hanged on 23 March 1931 in Lahore jail with his friends Rajguru and Bhagat Singh all norms of hanging. Here are the verses Sukhdev and other revolutionaries died singing:Watan ki aabru ka pas dekhen kaun karta hai,Suna hai aaj matkal mein hamara imtihaan hoga;Shaheedon ki chitaon par judenge har baras mele,Watan par mitne waalon ka yehi baaki nishan hoga;Kabhi yeh bhi din ayega jab apna raaj dekhenge,Jab apni hi zameen hogi aur apna aasmaan hoga.Still there are stories around that the dead bodies of all three 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.