While he is being celebrated as a martyr of the Indian freedom struggle, the blood relatives of Madan Lal Dhingra — hanged in Britain for killing Indian Army officer William Hutt Curzon Wyllie , who is said to have been his father’s close friend — continue to refuse to acknowledge his legacy. Commemorative Stamp on Dhingra No descendants of Dhingra participated in any of the two separate state-level functions, organised in the city to mark his death anniversary on Monday. Madan Lal Dhingra had been disowned by his father Dr. Gitta Mall , who had even published his decision as advertisements in newspapers, before he killed William Wyllie. Dhingra was hanged in a British prison on August 17, 1909. Who was Madan Lal Dhingra? Madan Lal Dhingra (Punjabi: ਮਦਨਲਾਲ ਧੀਂਗੜਾ) (1883–1909) was an Indian revolutionary independence activist. Madan Lal Dhingra was born on 18 September 1883 in Amritsar, India. He was the sixth of seven children of a civil surgeon. All six sons studied abroad.