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'''Dilawar Singh Babbar''' now known as '''Dilavar Singh Jaisinghvala''' (18 August 1970, in [[Panjgrain]], Punjab – 31 August 1995, in [[Chandigarh]])<ref>[https://khalsaforce.in/shaheed-bhai-dilawar-singh-jaisinghwala-31-august-1995 Bhai Dilawar Singh Babbar - Babbar Khalsa]</ref> was the assassin of [[Beant Singh (chief minister)|Beant Singh]], the chief minister of Punjab.<ref
name=ndtv>{{cite news | url = http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/hanging-for-beant-singh-assassin-on-saturday-rules-court-190557 | title = Will Balwant Singh Rajoana be hanged on Saturday? 10 big developments | publisher = NDTV | date = 2012-03-28 | accessdate = 2012-03-29 }}</ref> He was a serving [[Punjab Police (India)|Punjab Police]] officer when he joined the organization [[Babbar Khalsa International]] and became a suicide bomber to assassinate the Chief Minister of Punjab.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tribuneindia.com/2012/20120325/edit.htm#1|title=The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - Opinions|publisher=|accessdate=1 April 2015}}</ref>

He assassinated Beant Singh by blowing up his bullet-proof car at 5 p.m. on 31 August 1995 in the Punjab and Haryana Civil Secretariat, Chandigarh.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://satp.org/satporgtp/countries/india/states/punjab/terrorist_outfits/BKI.htm|title=Babbar Khalsa International|publisher=|accessdate=1 April 2015}}</ref><ref name="ensaaf.org">{{Citation
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==Family==

Dilawar Singh's mother, Surjit Kaur, and father, Baba Harnek Singh,<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20160309014657/https://business.highbeam.com/408843/article-1P3-1328735731/khalsa-radicals-remember-beant-singh-assasin HighBeam]</ref> live in Guru Nanak Nagar, [[Patiala]], [[Punjab (India)|Punjab]], India. His father was a government employee. Dilawar Singh had two brothers.

== Assassination of Beant Singh ==
In Punjab between 1992 and 1995, at a time when the Khalistan movement was active in the state and the Indian government was aggressively seeking to control the movement, during Beant Singh's tenure, many innocent Sikhs were killed unlawfully.<ref name="ensaaf.org"/> As per [http://www.humanrights.asia/resources/journals-magazines/article2/0103/dark-clouds-of-state-repression-police-excesses-have-broken-punjab Asian Human Rights Commission], ''"The Congress Government under Chief Minister Beant Singh created a situation where even subordinate police officers became the judge, jury and executioner of innocent people. Sikh boys were picked up from their houses or fields and taken blindfolded to isolated places and told to run. A burst of AK-47 rifle-fire ended their lives. Such was the terror that nobody dared ask why not even a single member of the police force was hit in crossfire. Many members of the police force in Punjab got out-of-turn promotions, gallantry awards and monetary rewards for killing “militants”."''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.humanrights.asia/resources/journals-magazines/article2/0103/dark-clouds-of-state-repression-police-excesses-have-broken-punjab|title=Dark clouds of state repression: Police excesses have broken Punjab|publisher=|accessdate=1 April 2015}}</ref> Dilawar Singh, who was a police constable at that time, conspired with [[Balwant Singh Rajoana]], a police officer, to kill Beant Singh. The attack on 31 August 1995 resulted in the death of Beant Singh, Dilawar Singh and 17 others,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-17532832|title=India puts Sikh radical Rajoana's execution on hold|work=BBC News|accessdate=1 April 2015}}</ref> and, on 25 December 1997, backup police officer Rajoana confessed his involvement<ref>{{cite news | url = http://www.tribuneindia.com/2012/20120319/edit.htm#5 | title = Promises to keep | author = Saurabh Malik | work = The Tribune | location = Chandigarh | date = 2012-03-19 | accessdate = 2012-03-29 }}</ref> while blaming the Indian government that it has murdered its own innocent people and promoted and honored the killers of Sikhs, its Chief Minister Beant Singh had licensed fake encounter killings, rape, abductions, and secret cremations which remains unpunished even today, refused to contest the court proceedings because of his lack of trust in the Indian judicial system, and death penalty was awarded to him.<ref name="thehindu.com"/>

== Awards and afterwards ==

On 23 March 2012, he was awarded with the title of "National Martyr" by the [[Akal Takht]], the highest temporal seat of the [[Khalsa]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.indianexpress.com/news/go-to-president-and-get-beant-killer-released-akal-takht-orders-badal/927736/|title=Go to President and get Beant killer released, Akal Takht orders Badal|publisher=|accessdate=1 April 2015}}</ref>

The Khalsa Action Committee (KAC), an umbrella organization of several Sikh organizations, honoured the father and mother of Dilawar Singh, Harnek Singh and Surjit Kaur with the Shaheed Baba Deep Singh gold medal at a function in the city of [[Amritsar]]. He was also given the title of 'pride of the nation' by Sikhs.<ref>[http://www.punjabnewsline.com/content/view/5460/38/ PunjabNewsline.com - Punjab radical Sikhs honour human bomb's family] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110715133534/http://www.punjabnewsline.com/content/view/5460/38/ |date=2011-07-15 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tribuneindia.com/2007/20070901/punjab1.htm|title=The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - Punjab|publisher=|accessdate=1 April 2015}}</ref>

== References ==
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==Further reading==
Dr Harjinder Singh Dilgeer, SIKH HISTORY IN 10 VOLUMES, The Sikh University Press, Belgium, 2012.

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[[Category:Suicides in India]]
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[[Category:Suicide bombers in the Punjab insurgency]]

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