Bhagat Singh was an important figure in India's independence movement. Bhagat Singh studied at the Dayanand Anglo Vedic High School, which was run by the Arya Samaj. He began opposing British rule in India at a young age and soon took up the struggle for national independence. The British had been in power for more than a hundred years in India. In December 1928, Bhagat Singh and an associate, Shivaram Rajguru, both members of a small revolutionary group, the Hindustan Socialist Republican Association, shot and killed a 21-year-old British police officer, John Saunders, in Lahore, Punjab. They held Scott responsible for the death of popular Indian nationalist leader Lala Lajpat Rai, because he had ordered the lathi charge in which Rai was injured and died of a heart attack two weeks later. As Saunders left a police station on a motorcycle, he was felled by a single shot fired from across the street by a sharpshooter, Rajguru. As he lay wounded, Singh shot him several times at close range, the postmortem report showing eight bullet wounds. Another of Singh's associates, Chandra Shekhar Azad, shot and killed an Indian Police head constable, Channan Singh, who attempted to pursue Singh and Rajguru as they fled.
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