List of terrorist incidents in Punjab India

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{{see also|Timeline of the Punjab insurgency}}
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This is a partial list of victims of violence in [[Punjab, India|Punjab]] (India) during the 1980s and 1990s.

== During the Punjab insurgency ==
{{See also|Punjab insurgency}}{{See also|List of actions attributed to KCF}}
{| class="wikitable"
! Date
! Place
! Incident
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| 29 Sep 1981
|
| Sikh separatists hijack Indian jetliner to Pakistan. All passengers rescued by Pakistani commandos.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1981/09/30/world/sikh-separatists-hijack-indian-jetliner-to-pakistan.html|title=Sikh Separatists Hijack Indian Jetliner to Pakistan | first=Michael T. | last=Kaufman | newspaper=The New York Times | date=30 September 1981|access-date=22 November 2014}}</ref>
|-
| 16 October 1981
| Chandigarh
|IAS officer Mr. Naranjan Singh was attacked in the civil secretariat. He survived but his brother Surinder Singh ACSO of defence HQ was killed by the Sikh extremists. Several Hindu temples attacked<ref name="KSS_1985">{{cite book |author1=K. S. Saxena |author2=Anil Gupta |title=Indian democracy: Recent trends & issues |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ul1uAAAAMAAJ |year=1985 |publisher=Anmol }}</ref>
|-
|4 August 1982
|Amritsar
|A Sikh granthi, Gurbaksh Singh, hijacked an Indian Airlines Boeing 737 with a fake bomb. He surrendered peacefully after Pakistan refused permission for its landing at Lahore. The granthi had demanded $300,000, safe passage to North America, and the release of various imprisoned Sikh extremists.<ref>{{Cite news |title=Holy Man Hijacks Jet |pages=6 |work=Herald-Journal}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |title=Hijacker may face death sentence |pages=10 |work=St. Petersburg Times}}</ref>
|-
|20 August 1982
|
|Manjit Singh hijacked Indian Airlines Flight 492, initially heading from Mumbai to New Delhi. Manjit demanded the pilot to fly to Lahore to refuel and head to Libya. After Pakistani authorities blocked their runway, the plane landed in Amritsar. Negotiations proceeded between the airport authorities and Manjit, in which he demanded a payment of 800,000 German marks, the transfer of power in Punjab to the Akali Dal, and the release of imprisoned Sikh granthis. He was eventually overpowered by the police and passengers in an ensuing scuffle.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Amritsar electrician hijacks Indian Airlines aircraft to Lahore, shot dead |url=https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/indiascope/story/19820915-amritsar-electrician-hijacks-indian-airlines-aircraft-to-lahore-shot-dead-772191-2013-08-27 |access-date=2023-06-18 |website=India Today|date=27 August 2013 }}</ref>
|-
|October 1982
|Amritsar
|Sikh extremists threw a grenade at a Hindu Dusshera procession near the Golden Temple, killing 1 and injuring 60. This incident was triggered by the death of a Nihang Sikh who was shot after he attacked a police officer.<ref>{{Cite news |title=Terrorist bomb injures 40 |pages=51 |work=The Bulletin}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-10-27 |title=October 27, 1982, Forty Years Ago: Amritsar blast |url=https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/40-years-ago/october-27-1982-forty-years-ago-amritsar-blast-8231951/ |access-date=2023-06-18 |website=The Indian Express}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |title=Sikh bomb kills 1, wounds 60 |pages=12 |work=Record-Journal |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JtlHAAAAIBAJ&dq=Sikh+bomb+kills+1%2C+wounds+60%22.+Record-Journal&pg=PA12&article_id=2456,3762913}}</ref>
|-
| April 1983
|
| Punjab police DIG [[A. S. Atwal]] murdered outside [[Harmandir Sahib]], the holiest shrine of the Sikhs, and his body left to rot. He came in with his Punjab Police uniform and his gun when he was killed.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/indiascope/story/19830515-dig-avtar-singh-atwal-brutally-murdered-outside-golden-temple-in-amritsar-770660-2013-07-23|title=DIG Avtar Singh Atwal brutally murdered outside Golden Temple in Amritsar|first=Gobind|last=Thukral|date=23 July 2013|website=India Today|access-date=4 May 2019}}</ref>
|-
|September 1983
|Jagraon
|Khalistani militants fire indiscriminately at people walking.<ref>Operation Blue Star and White Paper on Punjab Agitation (Think India Journal) p.7

</ref>
|-
| September-
5 October 1983
| Dhilwan
| 6 passengers aboard a bus traveling from Dhilwan in Kapurthala District to Jalandhar, all of them Hindus, killed by Sikh militants in [[1983 Dhilwan Bus massacre]]. In a separate incident, a police subinspector and a tax inspector were also killed aboard a train. A total of 20 people were left dead, and another 18 wounded in a 2-week span.<ref>{{Cite news |title=Indian government orders crackdown on terrorism |pages=59 |work=Lakeland Ledger}}</ref> By this time, more than 175 people had been killed by the militants in various incidents.<ref name="NYT1983">{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1983/10/07/world/indian-government-takes-over-a-state-swept-by-religious-strife.html|title=Indian Government takes over a state swept by religious strife|work=The New York Times |date=7 October 1983|access-date=22 November 2014 |last1=Stevens |first1=William K. }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1983/10/06/Sikhs-execute-six-Hindus-on-hijacked-bus/4941434260800/|title=Sikhs execute six hindus on hijacked bus|date=6 October 1983}}</ref>
|-
| 6 October 1983
| Some Sikh groups announce the creation of [[Khalistan]]
| President's rule is imposed by the Government of India in an attempt to bring order in Punjab.<ref name="NYT1983"/>
|-
| 8 October 1983
|
| Punjab Police Are Given Broad Powers<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1983/10/08/world/punjab-police-are-given-broad-powers.html | title=Punjab Police Are Given Broad Powers | first=William K. | last=Stevens | newspaper=The New York Times | date=8 October 1983}}</ref>
|-
| 14 October 1983
|
| A festival bombed in Chandigarh<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1983/10/16/world/mrs-gandhi-says-terrorism-will-end.html?ref=terrorism | title=Mrs. Gandhi Says Terrorism Will Fail | first=William K. | last=Stevens | newspaper=The New York Times | date=16 October 1983}}</ref>
|-
| 21 October 1983
| Gobindgarh
| Massacre of 58 Hindu passengers by Sikh militants. Unofficial number is more than 100 Hindus<ref>{{cite book |author=Hans Raj Khanna |title=Terrorism in Punjab: Cause and Cure |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4StuAAAAMAAJ |year=1987 |publisher=Panchnad Research Institute |page=93}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.thenews.com.pk/print/86429-Violence-rioting-terrorism-in-Indian-Punjab-during-last-35-years|title=Violence, rioting, terrorism in Indian Punjab during last 35 years|date=4 January 2016|website=thenews.com.pk|access-date=4 May 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://iref.homestead.com/Khalistan.html|title=IREF|access-date=22 November 2014}}</ref>
|-
| 18 Nov 1983
| [[Kapurthala district]]
| Nine armed men killed four Hindu bus passengers. Baba Ajit Singh, a Nihang, confronted the attackers and stopped further killings. Like in the [[1983 Dhilwan bus massacre|October killings]], the killers abandoned the bus at the Chitiwind village on the outskirts of Amritsar.<ref>{{cite news |author=Shekhar Gupta |title=Brutal slaying of four Hindu bus travellers takes tension in Punjab to a new high |publisher=India Today |date=1983-12-15 |url=https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/indiascope/story/19831215-brutal-slaying-of-four-hindu-bus-travellers-takes-tension-in-punjab-to-a-new-high-804481-2014-02-02 |access-date=2022-01-17 }}</ref>
|-
| 9 Feb 1984
|
| Sikh militants kill two Sikh men belonging to a breakaway group, and also bomb a wedding procession<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1984/02/09/world/general-strike-disrupts-punjab.html | title=General Strike Disrupts Punjab | first=Sanjoy | last=Hazarika | newspaper=The New York Times | date=9 February 1984}}</ref>
|-
| 23 Feb 1984
|
| 11 Hindus pulled off trains and buses and killed by Sikh militants; 27 more wounded.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1984/02/23/world/11-hindus-killed-in-punjab-unrest.html|title=11 HINDUS KILLED IN PUNJAB UNREST, WILLIAM K. STEVENS, The New York Times, Feb 23, 1984|newspaper=The New York Times|date=23 February 1984|access-date=22 November 2014|last1=Stevens|first1=William K.}}</ref>
|-
| 1 January 1984 to 3 June 1984
| Various places in Punjab
| 298 Hindus had been killed officially in violence in five months preceding Operation Blue Star. unofficial number of Hindus killed was well over 500<ref name="Robert2008">{{cite book | author1=Robert L. Hardgrave | author2=Stanley A. Kochanek | title=India: Government and Politics in a Developing Nation | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pSyRgcSQhuIC&pg=PT187 | access-date=20 October 2012 | year=2008 | publisher=Cengage Learning | isbn=978-0-495-00749-4 | page = 175 }}</ref>
|-
|9 April 1984
|Bhatinda
|A bomb explosion in a Hindu temple planted by Sikh militants wounded 3 people. A witness scheduled to testify against a Sikh militant was shot and killed by unidentified gunmen.
|-
| 21 May 1984
| Moga
| 13 Hindus killed by Sikh militants.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1984/05/23/world/sikh-terrorists-kill-13-in-northern-india-state.html |title=Sikh Terrorists Kill 13 in Northern India State |work=The New York Times|date=23 May 1984}}</ref>
|-
| 3 to 8 June 1984
| Amritsar
|more than 3000 (unofficial figure) people killed including 170 Sikh militants holed up inside the Harmandir Sahib temple complex and army troops fighting them and civilians caught in the cross fire between militants and the Indian army in Golden Temple which was termed as operation Blue Star. The total number of militants was in excess of 180 who were equipped with rocket launchers, artillery, hand grenades, and Chinese made shoulders fired missile launchers. They were led by Maj Gen Subeg Singh a disgruntled and court martialled officer of Indian army who had joined Bhindranwale and had connections with Pak Army because he had served in Bangladesh in 1971–72{{citation needed|date=May 2025}}
|-
| 12 September 1984
| Batala
| 8 bus passengers killed.
|-
| 10 and 11 May 1985
| New Delhi
| 85 Hindus were killed in serial bomb blasts by Khalistanis which occurred during consecutive days at various places across New Delhi and its neighboring Haryana and Uttar Pradesh. 59 Hindus had died on the spot while the rest succumbed to injuries after being hospitalized. The terrorists used transistor bombs in a train and 2 buses. They also planted bombs in crowded places like Market and Public Park.<ref>{{cite news |title=1985 transistor blast case stuck for 20-yrs|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/1985-transistor-blast-case-stuck-for-20-yrs/articleshow/1296696.cms |work=The Times of India | date=21 November 2005 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=India siezes [sic] 1500 as deaths mount|url= https://www.nytimes.com/1985/05/12/world/india-siezes-1500-as-deaths-mount-in-bomb-attacks.html |work=The New York Times |date=12 May 1985}}</ref>
|-
| 20 Aug 1985
| Sherpur
| [[Harchand Singh Longowal]] assassinated near sherpur Punjab.<ref>{{cite news |title=Sikh Leader in Punjab Accord Assassinated |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1985-08-21-mn-1021-story.html |work=Los Angeles Times |date=21 August 1985}}</ref>
|-
| 6 March 1986
| Kapurthala
| 13 Hindu civilians killed and 18 wounded in indiscriminate firing by Sikh militants.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Sikh Gunmen Kill 13 Hindus in 3 Attacks : Soldiers on Alert in Punjab State; Curfews in 2 Cities|website=[[Los Angeles Times]] |date=28 March 1986 |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1986-03-28-mn-666-story.html}}</ref>
|-
| 27 March 1986
| Amritsar
| Former Communist Party of India legislator Arjan Singh Mastana and his bodyguard gunned down and several Hindus killed<ref>{{ cite web|url=https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/cover-story/story/19860415-punjab-under-savage-siege-as-terrorist-killings-hindu-sikh-friction-wound-the-state-800791-1986-04-15 |title=Punjab under savage siege as terrorist killings, Hindu-Sikh friction wound the state|publisher=India Today|date=15 April 1986|first1=Suman|last1=Dubey|first2=Gobind |last2=Thukral}}</ref>
|-
| 28 March 1986
| Ludhiana
| 13 people killed in indiscriminate firing in Dresi ground, killing [[Kharti]] leaders including that of Jagirpur, [[Mayor Krishan Sood]]. unofficial number of Hindus killed was 32<ref>{{ cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1986-03-28-mn-666-story.html|title=Sikh gunmen kill 13 hindus in 3 attacks|work=Los Angeles Times|date=28 March 1986}}</ref>
|-
| 29 March 1986
| Mallian, Jalandhar
| 20 labourers killed by militants.
|-
| 8 June 1986
| Amritsar
| 9 People killed by Sikh extremists.<ref>{{ cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1986/06/08/world/9-killed-in-punjab-as-sikh-protest-ends.html |title=9 Killed in Punjab as Sikh Protest Ends|newspaper= The New York Times|date=8 June 1986|agency= Associated Press}}</ref>
|-
| 25 July 1986
| Mukatsar
| 15 bus passengers gunned down by suspected Sikh militants.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1986-07-26-mn-2-story.html|title=Suspected sikh terrorists kill 15 on bus|work=Los Angeles Times|date=26 July 1986 }}</ref>
|-
| 10 Aug 1986
| Pune
| Retired Army Chief of Staff, General Arun Shridhar Vaidya killed by Sikh militants.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1986/08/11/world/4-gunmen-kill-ex-commander-of-indian-army.html|title=4 GUNMEN KILL EX-COMMANDER OF INDIAN ARMY|work=The New York Times|date=11 August 1986 }}</ref>
|-
| 17 Sept 1986
| Phillaur
| Sikh extremists kill a [[Shiv Sena (1966–2022)|Shiv Sena]] Hindu leaders and several Hindu leaders are targeted and a hit list is published every week in Jagbani and Ajeet Punjabi newspapers for Hindu leader in politics, administration, and other government services to leave Punjab or face death for nearly all weeks between 1983 and 1985.<ref>{{ cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1986/09/17/world/sikh-extremists-kill-leader-of-a-militant-hindu-group.html |title=Sikh Extremists Kill Leader of a Militant Hindu Group|date=17 September 1986|newspaper= The New York Times|agency=Reuters}}</ref>
|-
|25 October
1986
|Chandigarh
|Suspected Sikh extremists opened fire in a Hindu market, killing nine and wounding ten.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Suspected Sikh extremists opened fire with submachine guns at... – UPI Archives |url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1986/10/25/Suspected-Sikh-extremists-opened-fire-with-submachine-guns-at/6669530596800/ |access-date=2023-06-08 |website=UPI}}</ref>
|-
| 30 October 1986
| Hoshiarpur
| Sikh militants robbed a bank, killed 5 Hindus and the unofficial number of Hindus killed was 23.<ref>{{cite web|url= https://apnews.com/a2d9183391296e26f8e38a64357426fc|title=Sikh terrorists rob bank, kill five|date=31 October 1986|publisher=Apnews}}</ref>
|-
| 31 October 1986
| Ludhiana
| 8 migrant and local Hindu industrial workers gunned down in indiscriminate firing on Daba road, Ludhiana. unofficial number was around 22 Hindus dead
|-
| 30 November 1986
| Khudda
| 24 Hindu bus passengers gunned down. Unofficial number was more than 50.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1986/12/01/world/sikh-extremists-hijack-punjab-bus-and-kill-24-people.html|title=Sikh extremists hijack Punjab bus and kill 24|date=30 November 1986|work=The New York Times}}</ref>
|-
| January 1987
|
| Congress Sikh MLA Sant Singh Liddar murdered.<ref>{{cite book | title=Guru Nanak Journal of Sociology | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=R8lPAQAAIAAJ | access-date=19 October 2012 | year=1997 | publisher=Sociology Department, Guru Nanak Dev University | page = 44 }}</ref>
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| January 1987
|
| Sikh militants kill eight people. Most of the victims were Hindus.<ref>{{cite web | title=Sikh Extremists Kill Eight in New Attacks | url=https://apnews.com/article/f39c4a3fbc333cd824f695c830dedd5c | date=19 January 1987 | work=apnews }}</ref>
|-
| 8 May 1987
|
| Sukhdev Singh, the son of the moderate Akali leader [[Jiwan Singh Umranangal]], was murdered by the militants. In 1986, Jiwan Singh had undertaken a door-to-door campaign in the [[Majha]] region, meeting the families of the militants and asking for their help in convincing the militants to give up the violence.<ref>{{cite news | url = http://www.tribuneindia.com/1998/98nov08/head2.htm | title = Akali leader Umranangal passes away | work = The Tribune | location = Chandigarh | date = 1998-11-08 | access-date = 2012-10-19 }}</ref>
|-
| 19 May 1987
| Tarn Taran
| [[Deepak Dhawan]], the State Committee member of the CPI(M)
|-
| 14 June 1987
| Delhi and Punjab
| Sikh militants in New Delhi killed 12 Hindus celebrating a baby's birthday party. 13 other people were killed in Punjab. Security was increased in New Delhi following reports of possible school bus bomb attacks by Sikh militants.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://apnews.com/33ef74e382e1329a3ed2b9e872c2d0c8|title=Sikh militant kill 25 in two attacks|date=14 June 1987|publisher=Apnews}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |title=Sikh extremists slay 12 Hindus |pages=6 |work=Eugene Register-Guard |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4-5VAAAAIBAJ&dq=sikh+militants+12+killed&pg=PA6&article_id=6773,1697287}}</ref>
|-
|8 July 1987
|
| Gurnam Singh Uppal, a moderate Sikh leader and the president of the Punjab unit of Democratic Youth Federation of India, was killed.
|-
| 6 July 1987
| Near [[Lalru]]
| [[Khalistan Commando Force]] militants hijacked a [[Haryana Roadways]] bus and [[1987 Lalru bus massacre|killed 38 Hindu bus passengers]].<ref name="AP_Lalru_Fatehabad">{{cite news |author=Dilip Ganguly |title=Sikhs Kill 34 Hindus on Two Buses, Bringing Two-Day Toll To 72 |work=Associated Press News |date=1987-07-07 |url=https://apnews.com/article/7934b6194b2743fb8e54b5ff29feae9d |access-date=2023-01-17 }}</ref>
|-
| 7 July 1987
| Near [[Fatehabad, Haryana|Fatehabad]]
| Sikh militants [[1987 Fatehabad bus killings|kill 34 Hindu bus passengers]] from two Haryana Roadways buses near Fatehabad<ref name="AP_Lalru_Fatehabad"/>
|-
| 6 August 1987
| Jagdev Kalan
| 12 people gunned down. Before shooting them victims were forced to chant "Long Live the Sikh Nation".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-08-07-mn-1247-story.html|title=Sikh Terrorists Kill 12 Hindus |date=7 August 1987|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|agency=Associated Press }}</ref>
|-
| 19 August 1987
| Jalandhar
| 11 people killed by Sikh militants including a Hindu man and his baby son.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://apnews.com/88aa82538b99a1424bc2862817bea09c |title=Sikh militants kill 11 in punjab|publisher=Apnews|date=19 August 1987 }}</ref>
|-
| 28 September 1987
| Alawalpur
| 5 killed and 8 injured, firing near Geetha Bhawan.
|-
| 20 October 1987
| Delhi
| 12 persons shot dead at various places in Delhi on Diwali day.
|-
| 15 January 1988
| Dhadial Nijhran, village near Batala
| 8 members of a family including 2 women and 3 children killed
|-
| 22 January 1988
| Punjab
| 12 people and a Hindu leader killed by Sikh extremists.<ref>{{cite web|url= https://apnews.com/ba9460953f1e6b2c5bbd9d963bb65a8a|title=Hindu leader,12 others killed in punjab|publisher=Apnews|date=22 January 1988 }}</ref>
|-
| 19 February 1988
| Gurdaspur, Hoshiarpur and Patiala
| Bombs exploded by Babbar Khalsa. 12 to 13 persons killed and nearly 50 injured.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1988/02/20/courts-bombed-in-indias-punjab/8b453431-8cee-43db-8a6d-ab0223a364e5/ |title=COURTS BOMBED IN INDIA'S PUNJAB |first=Richard M. |last=Weintraub |date=20 February 1988 |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]}}</ref>
|-
| 2 March 1988
| Bhaian
| 8 members of a family killed.
|-
| 3 March 1988
| Kahri sahri
| 35 persons shot dead, 50 others injured, indiscriminate firing at a festival gathering by terrorists believed to be Sikh militants.<ref>{{Cite news|last1=Hazarika|first1=Sanjoy|date=1988-03-04|title=44 Slain in Sikh-Hindu Violence|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1988/03/04/world/44-slain-in-sikh-hindu-violence.html|access-date=2022-02-13|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
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| 29 March 1988
| Bhathe (Kartarpur)
| 2 Persons shot dead by militants
|-
| 31 March 1988
| Rajbah
| 18 members of a Rajput family shot dead at village the Rajbah under police station.
|-
| 2 April 1988
| Punjab
| Sikh gunmen stormed into huts and houses across Punjab state and killed 37 people, including 7 children<ref>{{cite web|url= https://apnews.com/c03d07b22eecb6cd39e5a15e158ee74b|title=Sikh militant kill 35 in Year's worst violence|date=2 April 1988|publisher=Apnews }}</ref>
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| 15 May 1988
| Samana, Patiala
| 26 persons killed, 100 others injured in different incidents
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| 16 May 1988
| Amritsar, Ludhiana, Jalandhar and Gurdaspur
| 40 persons gunned down, 100 others injured in different incidents
|-
| 17 May 1988
| Kharar
| 35 labourers massacred.
|-
| 24 May 1988
| Dhaliwal (Nakodar)
| 6 members of a family murdered.
|-
| 19–21 June 1988
| Punjab and Haryana
| 3 bomb explosions took place over the course of 3 consecutive days. The week prior witnessed a bomb explosion in Amristar in the vicinity of the Shivala Bhaiyan Temple. 22 people were killed and 40 were injured, the terrorists specifically chose Monday, considered a particularly auspicious day to worship Lord Shiva, as the day to attack. The second Amristar explosion took place in a predominantly Hindu textile market, killing 28 and injuring 50. In Haryana, Sikh terrorists set off a bomb near a TV shop where people congregated to watch the ''Ramayana,'' killing 20 people. The third bomb explosion was in New Delhi and targeted a vegetable market, killing 3 and injuring 42. Sikh terrorists further gunned down 6 people in a cinema hall in Pehowa, Haryana. The motive of these attacks was to incite a Hindu backlash and exacerbate communal tensions between both communities.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Bombs are new weapon in Punjab terrorists' arsenal |url=https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/indiascope/story/19880715-bombs-are-new-weapon-in-punjab-terrorists-arsenal-797445-1988-07-14 |access-date=2023-06-19 |website=India Today|date=15 July 1988 }}</ref>
|-
| 22 June 1988
| Raman Mandi, Bathinda
| Social Worker Baldev Raj Mittal gunned down {{citation needed|date=March 2018}}
|-
| 7 September 1988
| Rure Aasal (Amritsar district)
| 15 rail passengers killed, 25 injured at Rure Aasal railway station.
|-
|8 January 1989
|
| Sikh terrorists killed 14 Hindus after the hanging of the two men responsible for the assassination of Indira Gandhi.<ref>{{cite news|title=Sikhs Kill 14 Hindus After Executions in India|work=The New York Times |date=8 January 1989 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1989/01/08/world/sikhs-kill-14-hindus-after-executions-in-india.html}}</ref>
|-
|25 June 1989
| Moga
| 27 Swayamsevaks of the RSS who were participating in the daily shakha conducted at Nehru Park were shot dead by some Khalistani terrorists who came on motorcycles, raised provocative slogans and started firing indiscriminately.<ref>{{ cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1989/06/26/world/27-slain-in-punjab-in-2d-day-of-attacks-on-hindus.html |title=27 Slain in Punjab in 2d Day of Attacks on Hindus|newspaper=The New York Times|date=26 June 1989|first=Sanjoy|last=Hazarika}}</ref>
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|11 Nov 1989
|Patiala
|19 students of Thapar Engineering College were massacred while they slept in their dorm by Sikh Extremists.<ref>{{Cite news |agency=Associated Press |date=1989-11-11 |title=Sikh Extremists Raid School, Killing 19 Sleeping Students|work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1989/11/11/world/sikh-extremists-raid-school-killing-19-sleeping-students.html |access-date=2022-11-12 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=1989-11-11 |title=Sikh Separatists Kill 19 Students at India College |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-11-11-mn-1003-story.html |access-date=2022-11-12 |website=Los Angeles Times}}</ref>
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| 19 January 1990
| Ballagan, Amritsar
| 8 Hindu villagers shot down by militants
|-
| 7 March 1990
| Abohar
| 32 shot dead in indiscriminate firing at crowded market<ref>{{cite web|url= https://apnews.com/f53b6e0c5ef9572e3ef02659b3eba05c |title=Attack by Sikh extremists in crowded market kill 22 hindus|date=8 March 1990|publisher=Apnews}}</ref>
|-
| 30 May 1990
| Ferozepur
| Sikh extremists kill 10 in attack on market.<ref name=upi/>
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| 28 May 1990
|
| Khalistan Commando Force attacked a farm, Killed 13 migrant workers, including 11 Hindus.<ref name=upi>{{cite web|url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1990/05/30/Sikh-extremists-kill-10-in-attack-on-market/7668644040000|title=Sikh extremists kill 10 in attack on market|date=30 May 1990|publisher=United Press International }}</ref>
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|17 November 1990
|Killianwali District Muktsar
|Militants associated with the Khalistan separatist movement opened fire on a Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) morning assembly, killing 11 people mostly children.
|-
| 22 November 1990
| Aliwal BATALA gsp
| Bank dacoity in Aliwal and Guard killed
|-
| November 1990
| Amritsar
| Sikh militants killed 23 Hindus in multiple attacks.<ref>{{cite web|url= https://apnews.com/article/9ab72799db6be13a560c3ceda482df05 |title=Sikh Militants Kill 7 Hindus, 10 Others|date=27 November 1990|publisher=Apnews}}</ref>
|-
| 15 June 1991
| Ludhiana district
| [[1991 Punjab killings]]; 110 passengers killed by Sikh militants.<ref>{{Cite news|title=Sikhs storm 2 trains, KIll 110 in Punjab|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-06-16-mn-1523-story.html|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|date=16 June 1991 }}</ref>
|-
|11 March 1992
|Harkishanpura
|16 Hindu workers killed by Sikh militants.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Sikh Militants Kill 16 Hindu Workers |url=https://apnews.com/article/25fafa529ebda6dc23f7576c39f9d88c |access-date=2023-01-13 |work=Associated Press News}}</ref>
|-
| 15 March 1992
| Ludhiana
| 18 people killed by Sikh militants.<ref>{{ cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-03-15-mn-6886-story.html|title=18 People killed by sikh militants in Punjab|work=Los Angeles Times|date=15 March 1992}}</ref>
|-
| 3 May 1992
| Ludhiana
| Prem Kumar Goel, a Judicial Magistrate in Jagraon (Ludhiana), and his wife were assassinated by terrorists on May 3, 1992. The attack occurred near Pabbian village in Jagraon.<ref>{{ cite web|url=https://www.khalistanextremismmonitor.org/globalupdate/india?pageindia=210&pagesize=50&pageusa=1&pagepakistan=6&pagecanada=9|title=Extremism UPdates|publisher=Institute for Conflict Management|date=3 May 1992 }}</ref>
|-
| 10 August 1992
| Barnala
| 31 people killed by Sikh militants.<ref>{{ cite web|url=https://apnews.com/2c6032b2d697ca71298bc47552bb649a|title=Sikh militants kill 31 people in revenge for death of leader|publisher=Apnews|date=10 August 1992 }}</ref>
|-
| 6 January 1993
| Chhichhrewal (Gurdaspur)
| 11 Terrorists encountered
|-
| 11 September 1993
| Chandigarh
| 12 people killed in bomb blast that was an assassination attempt on Youth Congress(I) Punjab minister Maninderjit Bitta.<ref>{{ cite web|url=https://gulfnews.com/today-history/today-in-history-september-11-1993--12-die-in-delhi-blast-1.2276877|title=Today in History: September 11, 1993 – 12 die in Delhi blast|publisher=Gulf News|date=10 September 2018|first=Abdul |last=Kareem }}</ref>
|-
|25 February 1994
|Rajasthan
|Leader of Khalistan Liberation Force Navneet Singh Khadian encountered by Punjab Police
|-
|31 August 1995
|Chandigarh
| Punjab's Chief Minister Beant Singh belonging to Congress party along with 17 others killed by a suicide bomber
|-
|}

== After end of Punjab insurgency ==
On 31 August 1995, Chief minister [[Beant Singh (chief minister)|Beant Singh]] was killed by a suicide bomber. The pro-Khalistan group [[Babbar Khalsa]] claimed responsibility for the assassination, but "security authorities" were reported to be doubtful of the truth of that claim.<ref name="babarkilledsingh">{{cite web|url=http://www2.irb-cisr.gc.ca/en/research/ndp/ref/index_e.htm?docid=173&cid=0&sec=CH03 |title=Issue Paper INDIA SIKHS IN PUNJAB 1994–95 |date=February 1996 |publisher=Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada |access-date=2009-05-31 }}{{dead link|date=May 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> A 2006 press release by the Embassy of the United States in New Delhi indicated that the responsible organization was the [[Khalistan Commando Force]].<ref name="KCFconvict">{{cite web|url=http://mumbai.usconsulate.gov/pr122006.html |title=U.S. Court Convicts Khalid Awan for Supporting Khalistan Commando Force |date=20 December 2006 |publisher=Embassy of the United States in New Delhi, India |access-date=2009-05-30 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081009155220/http://mumbai.usconsulate.gov/pr122006.html |archive-date=9 October 2008 }}</ref>

[[The Indian Express]] reported in its online edition on 19 June 2006 that the Khalistan Zindabad Force was behind bomb blasts in Jalandhar, India, at the Inter-State Bus Terminus that left three people killed and injured 12. A police spokesman said the attack was planned by a pair of KZF leaders, one based in Pakistan and one in Canada, and executed by a "local criminal".<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.indianexpress.com/news/kzf-behind-jalandhar-blasts/6802/|title=KZF behind Jalandhar blasts|date=19 June 2006|work=The Indian Express|access-date=2009-06-02}}</ref>

On 22 May 2005, Consecutive bomb blasts took place in the Liberty cinema and Satyam cinema in New Delhi during the screening of the movie Jo [[Bole So Nihal|Jo Bole So Nihaal (film)]] in which 3 people died and dozens were injured. The movie was being opposed by a section of intellectual Sikhs.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/may/23/film.india|title=Cinemas bombed as film angers Sikhs|date=23 May 2005|website=The Guardian|access-date=10 October 2019}}</ref>

On 14 October 2007, six people were killed and 32 injured in a bomb blast at Shingaar cinema hall, Ludhiana.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.arabnews.com/node/304622|title=Ludhiana Blast, a 'Terrorist Attack'|date=16 October 2007|website=Arab News|access-date=4 May 2019}}</ref>

On 24 September 2009, the Punjab Police arrested two Babbar Khalsa militants involved in the assassination of Rulda Singh, president of the Punjab Rashtriya Sikh Sangat who was shot at and seriously injured by two unidentified persons at his residence near New Grain market on 29 July.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.centralchronicle.com/viewnews.asp?articleID=15398|title=Punjab Police arrest two Babbar Khalsa terrorists|author=United News of India|author-link=United News of India|date=24 September 2009|publisher=centralchronicle.com|access-date=2009-10-11|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110717050633/http://www.centralchronicle.com/viewnews.asp?articleID=15398|archive-date=17 July 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref>

[[2016–17 targeted killings in Punjab, India]]:
multiple attacks on Hindu leaders of [[Shiv Sena]], [[Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh]] and [[BJP]] happened during the years 2016–17. Six leaders of these organisations were killed.<ref>{{ cite web|url=https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/nia-claims-scientific-proof-to-establish-pak-behind-killing-of-six-hindu-leaders-killing-in-punjab-with-aim-to-revive-khalistani-militancy-1144891-2018-01-15 |title=Pakistan's Khalistan agenda behind killing of 6 Hindu leaders in Punjab, says NIA|date=15 January 2018|publisher=India Today|first=Kamaljit Kaur |last=Sandhu }}</ref>

== See also ==
* [[Punjab insurgency]]
* [[Human rights abuses in Punjab, India]]
* [[Kharku]]
* [[Operation Blue Star]]
* [[Operation Woodrose]]
* [[Operation Black Thunder]]
* [[1991 Punjab killings]]
* [[1987 Punjab killings]]
* [[Moga Massacre (1989)]]
* [[Terrorism in India]]
* [[List of designated terrorist groups]]
* [[List of organisations banned by the Government of India]]
* [[List of terrorist incidents in India]]

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

==Bibliography==
* Knights of Falsehood, KPS Gill, 1997
* Global security watch, Satyapal Dang, 2008
* Sikhs Slay 13 Hindus in Punjab, United Press International, 29 March 1986
* Sikh Extremists Open Fire on Top Punjab Police Official, 4 October 1986 ''The New York Times''

==External links==
* [https://www.upi.com/Archives/1988/05/31/Bombs-exploded-today-at-a-crowded-vegetable-wholesale-market/7410581054400/ Bombs exploded today at a crowded vegetable wholesale market]
* [https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-06-21-mn-4792-story.html Bomb Blast Kills 24, Injures 45 in India; Sikh Militants Blamed]
*[https://www.nytimes.com/1988/03/04/world/44-slain-in-sikh-hindu-violence.html 44 Slain in hindu sikh violence]

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