Letter, Writtings and Statements of Shaheed Bhagat Singh and his Copatriots

WARRANT OF EXECUTION ON SENTENCE OF DEATH

Section 381of the Criminal Procedure Code, Sections 8 and 11 of Ordinance No. III of 1930.
In the Court of the Lahore Conspiracy Case Tribunal, Lahore constituted under Ordinance No. III of 1930.

TO THE SUPERINTENDENT OF THE CENTRAL JAIL AT LAHORE
WHEREAS Bhagat Singh, son of Kishen Singh, resident of Khawasrian, Lahore, one of the prisoners in the Lahore Conspiracy Case, having been found guilty by us of offence under section 121 and section 302 of the Indian Penal Code and also under section 4 (b) of the Explosive Substances Act read with section 5 of that Act and with section 120-F of the Indian Penal Code at a trial commencing from the 5th May, 1930, and ending with the 7 October, 1930, is hereby sentenced to death.
This is to authorise and require you, the said Superintendent, to carry the said sentence into execution by causing the said BHAGAT SINGH to be hanged by the neck until he be dead at Lahore on the 17th day of October, 1930, and to return this warrant to the High Court with an endorsement certifying that the sentence has been executed.
Given under our hands and the seal of the Court this 7th day of October, 1930.

Seal of the Tribunal
Sd/- PRESIDENT OF THE TRIBUNAL
Sd/- Member of the Tribunal
Sd/- Member of the Tribunal