The Delhi Archives on Friday marked the anniversary of the incident and also shared on social media, rare archival records, including news reports published on the incident and around the time of the their trial later in 1929. The Tribune's Lahore edition on Jhad carried a report on the duo on its front page, with sub-headlines quoting them: 'We wanted to make deaf hear' 'No faith in utopian non-violence', 'Assembly is only a hollow show' and 'We could have ambushed Simon, but that was not our intention'. The Delhi Assembly bomb case, as the Apincident is widely known, has been portrayed in a number of films and documentaries, showing the revolutionary duo hurling low-intensity bombs, chanting 'Inquilab Zindabad' ('Long Live Revolution') and also firing a few shots in the air.īoth Singh and Dutt surrendered after this incident and later a few newspapers reports quoted them as saying that it was only a 'danger signal to the government' to 'change the system of administration'. The Simon Commission faced protests and demonstrations in various regions across India, and was welcomed with black flags and slogans from Lahore to Patna.

In 1930, the Commission published its two-volume report, also known as the Simon Report.

The Indian Statutory Commission, commonly known as the Simon Commission after its chairman, was sent to India twice - from February-March in 1928 and October 1928-April 1929 - to study potential constitutional reforms.

Bhagat Singh by Raghvinder Singh