हिन्दुस्तान की आज़ादी का वो इतिहास और शहीद जो आपसे छुपाए गए |

Wanted: Enthusiastic and heroic soldiers for organizing Gadar in Hindustan against British rule.
Remuneration : Death. तनखाह - मौत
Reward : Martyrdom. इनाम - शहीदी
Pension : Freedom. पेंशन - आज़ादी
Notably, Gadar Party published the above advertisement in November 1913 in U.S.A.

Bhag Singh was a prominent leader in the Vancouver Sikh community and a victim of the Bela Singh shooting. He was the son of Narayan Singh and Man Kaur, and the third of four brothers. His village was Bhikhiwind, in a part of the Lahore district that fell within India in 1947 and that is now within the Amritsar district of Punjab. He served five years in the Indian army cavalry, a year and a half-year in the Hong Kong police force and also two and a half years on the Shanghai police force before he came to Canada in 1906.
He became secretary of the temple management committee in Vancouver in October 1908. In January 1911, after a visit to India he returned to Vancouver with his wife and newborn child in the company of Balwant Singh and his family in a highly publicized challenge to Canada’s immigration policy. In Bhag Singh and Balwant Singh’s cases, the government permitted their families to stay, without conceding a right of entry to other families from India.
Bhag Singh was a member of the Shore Committee at the time of the Komagata Maru and along with Husain Rahim took over the the ship’s charter from Gurdit Singh. While the ship was still in Vancouver harbour, he was arrested on the American side of the border with Balwant Singh and Harnam Singh who were together found to be carrying revolvers, but he was released and back in Vancouver shortly after the ship left ( Their plan was to send revolvers to India by Komagatamaru to be used for freedom of India.)
On September 5, 1914, he and Battan Singh were killed in the shooting of seven men by British spy Bela Singh in the Khalsa Diwan Society gurdwara. Bhag Singh’s wife had died earlier that year following the birth of their second child, and the Khalsa Diwan Society assumed responsibily for the care of his orphaned children, Joginder Singh and Karam Kaur.
But what happened to them later is not known.

In Vancouver court, Bela Singh said he had been a signaller in the 30th Punjabis in India and that he was still on reserve. He said that one of his tasks in the immigration office was to translate copies of the Gadar newspaper into English for Hopkinson and that his translations were sent to Ottawa and England.
In court Hopkinson argued that Bela Singh killed Bhai Bhag Singh and Battan Singh for self defence and Bela Singh was released by court.

British Government deputed Hopkinson, an officer of the Secret Police, to Canada to keep a watch over the activities of the Indians. Hopkinson could understand and speak both Hindi and Punjabi. He managed to collect a group of traitors and informers from amongst the Punjabis around him.
Before Hopkinson, legendary Taraknath Das was interpreter at Vancouver in 1908. Taraknath left Canada and went to USA and became one of the founder of the Gadar party.

Hopkinson was causing too much problems for Gadar party revolutionaries. Therefore on -

21/10/1914: Gadri Bhai Mewa Singh killed interpreter Hopkinson in Vancouver court by bullet.

11/1/1915: Bhai Mewa Singh was hanged to death at 8:00 a.m.

At least six freedom fighters were hanged because of गद्दार Bela Singh, who had an armed guard with him at all times, and used to say no one could touch him in the British Raj. Finally, after 20 years in May- June 1934, He was shot by three Gadri Akali Babbar's, including a childhood friend of his, and his body decapitated.