Bhagat Singh foundation chairman sends legal notice over ‘criminal’ remarks

Lahore: The chairman of the Bhagat Singh Memorial Foundation, a Lahore-based non-profit organization, has issued a legal notice seeking Rs 500 million in damages from retired Pakistan Army officer Tariq Majeed for labeling freedom fighter Bhagat Singh a “criminal.”

The notice also demands an unconditional apology for allegations of receiving foreign funds.

Imtiaz Rashid Qureshi, the foundation’s chairman, issued the notice through his lawyer Khalid Zaman Khan, addressing Tariq Majeed, who serves as the chief public relations officer of the Metropolitan Corporation Lahore.

“My client is a patriot and honest to the country and Islam. He has not taken a single penny from anyone,” Qureshi stated, said that Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah had lauded Bhagat Singh in the Central Assembly of Delhi on September 12, 1929.

The controversy stems from a report Majeed filed in the Lahore High Court in November, where he used “vulgar and derogatory language” against Bhagat Singh.

In the report, Majeed refused to support naming Lahore’s Shadman Chowk after Bhagat Singh, describing him as a criminal and, by today’s standards, a terrorist who killed a British police officer and was executed for the crime along with two associates.

The foundation has rejected these remarks and vowed to uphold Bhagat Singh’s legacy as a revolutionary.