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Pakistani authorities have informed India their inability to locate clothes and other personal possessions in which martyrs Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev and Rajguru were hanged in 1931, the Minister of State for External Affairs Digvijay Singh told the Rajya Sabha on Thursday.
The minister in a written reply told the house that in response to a written request from New Delhi seeking return of clothes and other personal belongings of the three martyrs, Islamabad had communicated that their officials were unable to locate the said items.
"The Government of Pakistan informed that concerned authorities had indicated their inability to locate the articles as the jail in which martyrs Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev and Rajguru were hanged in 1931 was demolished and all record of temporary nature were destroyed," Singh told the House.
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