List of terrorist

incidents in Punjab
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This is a partial list of victims of violence

in Punjab (India) during the 1980s and
1990s.

During the Punjab

insurgency
 Date Place Incident

Separatists hijack Indian jetliner to Pakistan. All passengers

29 Sep 1981
rescued by Pakistani commandos.[1]

IAS officer Mr. Naranjan Singh was attacked in the civil

16 October
Chandigarh secretariat. He survived but his brother Surinder Singh ACSO of
1981
defence HQ was killed by the Sikh extremists.[2]

Punjab police DIG A. S. Atwal murdered inside Harmandir Sahib,

April 1983 the holiest shrine of the Sikhs, and his body left to rot. He had
come to offer prayers unarmed when he was killed.[3]

6 Bus passengers aboard a bus traveling from Dhilwan in

Kapurthala District to Jalandhar, all of them Hindus, killed by
5 October Sikh terrorists in 1983 Dhilwan Bus massacre. In a separate
Dhilwan
1983 incident, a police subinspector and a tax inspector were also
killed aboard a train. By this time, more than 175 people had
been killed by the militants in various incidents.[4]

Some Sikh
groups
6 October President's rule is imposed by the Government India in an
announce the
1983 attempt to bring order in Punjab. [4]
creation of
Khalistan

8 October
Punjab Police Are Given Broad Powers[5]
1983

14 October
A festival bombed in Chandigarh[6]
1983

21 October
Gobindgarh Massacre of Hindu passengers by Sikh militants[7][8][9]
1983

Sikh militants kill two Sikh men belonging to a breakaway

9 Feb 1984
group, and also bomb a wedding procession[10]

11 Hindus pulled off from trains and buses and killed by Sikh
23 Feb 1984
militants ; 27 more wounded.[11]

1 January Various
298 people had been killed in violence in five months preceding
1984 to 3 places in
Operation Blue Star.[12]
June 1984 Punjab

3000 (unofficial figure) people killed including Sikh militants

holed up inside the Harmandir Sahib temple complex and army
3 June to 8
June 1984 Amritsar 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.

12
September Batala 8 bus passengers killed.
1984

15 persons killed and many injured in indiscriminate firing by

Feb 86 Nakodar
State police

6 March
Kapurthala Many civilians killed in indiscriminate firing by terrorists.
1986

28 March
Ludhiana 13 people killed in indiscriminate firing in Dresi ground.
1986

29 March Mallian,
20 labourers killed by terrorists.
1986 Jalandhar

25 July 1986 Mukatsar 15 bus passengers gunned down.

31 October 8 migrant and local industrial workers gunned down in

Ludhiana
1986 indiscriminate firing on Daba road.

30
November Khudda 24 bus passengers gunned down.
1986

January 87 Congress Sikh MLA Sant Singh Liddar murdered.[13]

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
8 May 1987
Majha region, meeting the families of the militants and asking
for their help in convincing the militants to give up the
violence.[14]

19 May
Tarn Taran Deepak Dhawan, the General Secretary Punjab unit of CPI(M)
1987

80 bus passengers killed in Fatehabad on three Haryana

Jul 87 Lalru
Roadways buses.

Gurnam Singh Uppal, a moderate Sikh leader and the president

3 July 1987 of the Punjab unit of Democratic Youth Federation of India, was
killed.

6 August
1987 Jagdev Kalan 13 people gunned down.

28
September Alawalpur 5 killed and 8 injured, firing near Geetha Bhawan.
1987

20 October
Delhi 12 persons shot dead at various places in Delhi on Diwali day.
1987

Dhadial
15 January Nijhran,
8 members of a family including 2 women and 3 children killed
1988 village near
Batala

Gurdaspur,
19 February Bombs exploded by Babbar Khalsa. 12 to 13 persons killed and
Hoshiarpur
1988 nearly 50 injured.[15]
and Patiala

2 March
Bhaian 8 members of a family killed.
1988

3 March 35 persons shot dead, 50 others injured, indiscriminate firing at

Kahri sahri
1988 a festival gathering by terrorists.

29 March Bhathe
2 Persons shot dead by militants
1988 (Kartarpur)

31 March 18 members of a Rajput family shot dead at village the Rajbah

Rajbah
1988 under police station.

6 persons massacred in this village under P.S. Gharinda. 18

2 April 1988 Ramgam
more persons killed in other parts.

15 May Samana,
26 persons killed, 100 others injured in different incidents
1988 Patiala

Amritsar,
Ludhiana,
16 May 40 persons gunned down, 100 others injured in different
Jalandhar
1988 incidents
and
Gurdaspur

17 May
Kharar 35 labourers massacred.
1988

24 May Dhaliwal
6 members of a family murdered.
1988 (Nakodar)

19 June 2 bombs blasted during Ramayana (TV serial) telecast at a

1988 Kurukshetra shop, killing 15 persons.

Raman
22 June
Mandi, Social Worker Baldev Raj Mittal gunned down
1988
Bathinda

Rure Aasal
7 September 15 rail passengers killed, 25 injured at Rure Aasal railway
(Amritsar
1988 station.
district)

26 Swayamsevaks of the RSS who were participating in the

25 June daily shakha conducted at Nehru Park were shot dead by some
Moga
1989 Khalistani terrorists who came on motorcycles, raised
provocative slogans and started firing indiscriminately.

7 March
Abohar 32 shot dead in indiscriminate firing in crowded bazaar
1990

22
Aliwal
November Bank dacoity in Aliwal and Guard killed
BATALA gsp
1990

15 June Ludhiana
1991 Punjab killings, 80 passengers killed
1991 district

6 January Chhichhrewal
11 Terrorists encountered
1993 (Gurdaspur)

After end of Punjab

insurgency
On 31 August 1995, 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.[16] A 2006 press release by
the Embassy of the United States in New
Delhi indicated that the responsible
organization was the Khalistan
Commando Force.[17]

The Indian Express reported in its online

edition on 19 June 2006 that the
Khalistan Zindabad Force(KZF) 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".[18]

On 14 October 2007, Six people were

killed and 32 injured in a bomb blast at
Shingaar cinema hall,Ludhiana.[19]

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.[20]

On 27 July 2015, Insurgent Gunmen from

Pakistan in Army fatigues attacked a
Police Station in Gurdaspur. 7 people
died including Gurdaspur SP and 3
terrorist also gunned down by Punjab
Police SWAT Team.

On 2 January 2016, some terrorists who

crossed the border from Pakistan
illegally armed with weapons attacked
the Indian Air Force base in Pathankot.
Six terrorist and 7 soldiers were killed in
it.

See also
Punjab insurgency
Operation Blue Star
Operation Woodrose
 1991 Punjab killings
1987 Punjab killings

References
1. Kaufman, Michael T. (30 September
1981). "Sikh Separatists Hijack
Indian Jetliner to Pakistan" . New
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2014.
2. K. S. Saxena; Anil Gupta (1985).
Indian democracy: Recent trends &
issues . Anmol.
3. Thukral, Gobind (23 July 2013). "DIG
Avtar Singh Atwal brutally murdered
outside Golden Temple in Amritsar" .
India Today. Retrieved 4 May 2019.
4. "Indian Government takes over a
state swept by religious strife" . 7
October 1983. Retrieved
22 November 2014.
5. Stevens, William K. (8 October 1983).
"Punjab Police Are Given Broad
Powers" . The New York Times.
6. Stevens, William K. (16 October
1983). "Mrs. Gandhi Says Terrorism
Will Fail" . The New York Times.
7. Hans Raj Khanna (1987). Terrorism
in Punjab: Cause and Cure .
Panchnad Research Institute. p. 93.
8. "Violence, rioting, terrorism in Indian
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 www.thenews.com.pk. 4 January
2016. Retrieved 4 May 2019.
9. "IREF" . Retrieved 22 November
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10. Hazarika, Sanjoy (9 February 1984).
"General Strike Disrupts Punjab" .
The New York Times.
11. "11 HINDUS KILLED IN PUNJAB
UNREST, WILLIAM K. STEVENS, The
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February 1984. Retrieved
22 November 2014.
12. Robert L. Hardgrave; Stanley A.
Kochanek (2008). India: Government
and Politics in a Developing Nation .
Cengage Learning. p. 175. ISBN 978-
 0-495-00749-4. Retrieved 20 October
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13. Guru Nanak Journal of Sociology .
Sociology Department, Guru Nanak
Dev University. 1997. p. 44. Retrieved
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14. "Akali leader Umranangal passes
away" . Chandigarh: The Tribune. 8
November 1998. Retrieved
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15. https://www.washingtonpost.com/a
rchive/politics/1988/02/20/courts-
bombed-in-indias-punjab/8b453431-
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16. "Issue Paper INDIA SIKHS IN
PUNJAB 1994-95" . Immigration and
 Refugee Board of Canada. February
1996. Retrieved 31 May 2009.
17. "U.S. Court Convicts Khalid Awan for
Supporting Khalistan Commando
Force" . Embassy of the United
States in New Delhi, India. 20
December 2006. Archived from the
original on 9 October 2008.
Retrieved 30 May 2009.
18. "KZF behind Jalandhar blasts" . The
Indian Express. 19 June 2006.
Retrieved 2 June 2009.
19. "Ludhiana Blast, a 'Terrorist
Attack' " . Arab News. 16 October
2007. Retrieved 4 May 2019.
20. United News of India (24 September
2009). "Punjab Police arrest two
Babbar Khalsa terrorists" .
centralchronicle.com. Archived from
the original on 17 July 2011.
Retrieved 11 October 2009.

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
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Bomb Blast Kills 24, Injures 45 in India;
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