New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Friday paid homage to the martyrs of the historic Hardinge bomb case.

Freedom fighters Bhai Bal Mukund, Master Amir Chand and Master Awadh Behari were executed on May 8, 1915 for hurling a bomb at a procession of then Governor-General of India Lord Hardinge in Chandni Chowk on December 23, 1912. Lord Hardinge was injured in the incident.

The martyrs were remembered in a function organised by Delhi Government at the Shaheed Smarak Sthal (Phansi Ghar) in Mualana Azad Medical College premises in New Delhi.

Kejriwal accompanied by Environment Minister Asim Ahmad Khan and Social Welfare and SC/ST Minister Sandeep Kumar, placed wreath at the Smarak and paid floral tribute to the martyrs. The memorial was earlier used to be the Old Delhi Jail.

Amir Chand, Bal Mukund and Awadh Behari were executed at the Old Delhi Jail, while another freedom fighter Basant Kumar Biswas was hanged on May 9 at the Ambala Central Jail.

In memory of these martyrs, a memorial was built at the site of 'Phansi Ghar' in Maulana Azad Medical College campus.

The freedom fighters had protested entry of the then Governor- General of India in the new Indian capital Delhi.