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.
