Gurudwara Dr.Diwan Singh (Port Blair)

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  hpt_lucky (guest)

  http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Gurdwara_Shaheed_Dr._Diwan_Singh Diwan Singh Arrest Diwan Singh was arrested on October 23, 1943. On entering the jail, he was jeered, abused and beaten mercilessly. In a week’s time, all his 2000 associates who were the members of the peace committee, the IIL, the INA, the Seva Samiti and the Punjabi Society, were also arrested and huddled in the jail. The Japanese beat and tortured them with water treatment, electric shocks, hanging them upside down, and burning heaps of paper under their thighs. A very large number of them died, some committed suicide and a few made false confessions to save their lives. They were taken to a far-flung place, killed and buried. Tourtures to Death Diwan Singh was brutally tortured for 82 days, a parallel of which is difficult to find in human history. He was hung with his hair from the ceiling. At other occasions, his ankles were tied to ceiling, water was pumped through his mouth and nostrils, and he was tied to a stake, and his bones were crunched and subjected to electric shocks. Fire was burned under his thighs; nails pulled from his fingers and toes. Flesh from various parts of his body was pulled daily, and he was forced to sit on a charcoal stove. His eyeballs were gouged, but the Japanese failed to break his spirit. He died on January 14, 1944.

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  Angad (guest)

  Dr. Diwan Singh Kalepani was my great grandfather. A museum is being built in his memory in Chandigarh, punjab.

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