17 December - Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev Thapar, and Shivaram Rajguru were involved in the killing of British police officer

 

Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev Thapar, and Shivaram Rajguru were involved in the killing of British police officer James A. Scott, not James Saunders. On December 17, 1928, in Lahore, India, these revolutionaries targeted James A. Scott, who was mistakenly identified as James A. Saunders.

Bhagat Singh and his associates were part of the Indian independence movement and engaged in various acts of protest and resistance against British colonial rule. The killing of James A. Scott was carried out in retaliation for the death of Lala Lajpat Rai, a prominent leader in the Indian independence movement, who had died from injuries sustained during a baton charge by the police. The plan had been to target James A. Scott, who was believed to be responsible for ordering the lathi charge on Lala Lajpat Rai. However, they ended up killing James A. Saunders by mistake.

The incident played a significant role in the events leading up to the more widely known Lahore Conspiracy Case, in which Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev Thapar, and Shivaram Rajguru were eventually tried and sentenced to death for their involvement in the killing of J.P. Saunders.