31/07/2026
Mohamed Singh Azad... believed to be a 37-year-old Indian appeared at Bow Street, Keep
London today, charged with the murder of Sirmiling Michael O’Dwyer... As he entered the building, Azad was smiling and chatting to the officers who accompanied him..."
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His name and religion caused some confusion. Initially, charged in the name of Mahommed Guinness Singh Azad, it was later discovered that the name in his passport was Udham Singh. His is gom statement recorded after the incident and for produced as evidence carried in Daily Mirror 542 report on April 2, 1940, said, “Ready to die, says Indian... I am dying for my country.”
The Hull Daily Mail’s report on 13 March 1940 i ling Udham Singh, a member of HSRA assassinated O’Dwyer in Caxton Hall in London. Michael O’Dwyer was Lt Governor of Punjab when Jallianwala Bagh massacre took place in 1919, where hundreds of people were killed by Guinness
indiscriminate fire by General Dyer.
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The murder trial lasted two days, June 4-5. Interestingly, when Udham Singh was brought to court for trial, he pleaded ‘Not Guilty.’ He was hanged on 31 July 1940 in Pentonville Prison in London.