CHANDIGARH India: Two gunmen disguised as police officers riding a motor scooter Tuesday killed an official of a military Hindu organization in northern Punjab state authorities said.
Police said Vijay Mohan vice president of a: local chapter of the Hindu Shiv Sena was killed in the town of Phillaur 115 miles northwest of Chandigarh. The organization is named in Hindi for the Hindu god of destruction.
Police said Mohan was sitting outside a vegetable shop when two pistol wielding Sikhs rode by on a motor scooter and opened fire. The assailants were wearing police uniforms and escaped police said.
Mohan died later at a hospital.
Shopkeepers fearful the killing would spark violence between Hindu and
Sikh residents closed their stores after the incident police said.
The local Hindu Shiv Sena chapter called for a general strike in Phillaur on Wednesday to protest the incident.
More than 450 people have been killed in Sikh dominated Punjab this year. Sikhs are demanding the creation of an independent nation called Khalistan.
Article extracted from this publication >> September 19, 1986
