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Gurjant Singh Budhsinghwala (1964 - 29 July 1992) was the third chief of the Khalistan Liberation Force.
Early life and family
Gurjant Singh was born in the village of Budhsinghwala, District Faridkot in 1964. He had four siblings — one sister and three brothers. He was learned, although after being tortured by the police multiple times and his grandfather being killed by Punjab Police, as he was a religious Amritdhari Sikh, he joined the KLF in 1986.[1]
Participation in the Khalistan Movement
Gurjant Singh's grandfather died in 1984 when Indian Security Forces opened indiscriminate firing on his home, even though he participated in no crimes. Gurjant Singh took revenge and killed top Punjab Police officers including AS Brar and SSP Patiala.Template:Cn
Budhsinghwala commanded of a faction of Khalistan Liberation Force.[2]
India Today's Volume 17 mentioned that Budhsinghwala was responsible for the killings and injury of key police officers and politicians.[3][4]
Death
Budhsinghwala was killed in a police encounter on 29 July 1992, in Ludhiana, when he and other members of KLF were meeting. The firefight took several hours. Police stated that Singh was killed in the house where meeting was taking place, while some witnesses claim that he was killed in an alleyway Template:Convert away from the house. His body was not returned to his family and was secretly cremated as police feared that his body might be used as a propaganda tool.[5] At the time of his death, he was wanted in 37 cases of assassination.[4]Template:Qn
After Budhsinghwala's death, Dr Pritam Singh Sekhon succeeded him as head of the KLF.[6]
References
- ↑ The Sikhs of the Punjab: unheard voices of State and Guerilla violence{{#if:Pettigrew|, Pettigrew}. Zed Books(1995). ISBN 978-1-85649-355-0
- ↑ Death report exaggerated. The Independent(1992-08-29). Retrieved 2010-05-07.
- ↑ India Today{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. Aroon Purie for Living Media India Limited(July 1992)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Combating Terrorism in Punjab: Indian Democracy in Crisis{{#if:Joshi|, Joshi}. Research Institute for the Study of Conflict and Terrorism(1993)
- ↑ IHRO Human Right Watch. Ihro.in. Retrieved 2012-10-06.
- ↑ The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - Ludhiana Stories. Tribuneindia.com. Retrieved 2012-10-16.