Bhagat Singh’s pistol displayed at BSF’s Hussainiwala museum
FEROZEPUR: The historic pistol of Shaheed Bhagat Singh was displayed in a glass showcase with photograph of Bhagat Singh at the Border Security Force (BSF) Museum at Hussainiwala, 11km from Ferozepur, on Sunday.
The pistol had reached the BSF headquarters here from Indore, last week.
The pistol was requisitioned by the BSF and was brought to the Central School of Weapons and Tactics (CSWT) Indore, on October 7, 1969, along with seven other firearms from the Punjab Police Academy in Phillaur, where it had been since 1944, after being received from the officials in Lahore.
A senior Border Security Force official, pleading anonymity, said an order was placed to prepare a special case to keep the .32 colt automatic pistol by which Bhagat Singh killed British assistant superintendent of police John Saunders on December 17, 1928.
A lawyer, HC Arora, had filed a PIL petition seeking retrieval of the pistol from BSF museum, Indore. In November 2016, an English daily reported about the pistol being displayed at the BSF museum in Indore.
The BSF was earlier planning to put the pistol on display at its new arms museum in Indore, but a few weeks earlier, it was sent to the BSF headquarters in Jalandhar.
Last Monday, a Border Security Force official informed the Punjab and Haryana high court that orders were issued to exhibit the pistol at Hussainiwala.
A SPECIAL ‘CASE’ HAS BEEN PREPARED TO KEEP THE .32 COLT AUTOMATIC PISTOL IN THE BSF MUSEUM AT HUSSAINIWALA