Chandigarh (PTI) Five militants were among nine people killed overnight in the north Indian border state of Punjab, where Sikh militants have waged a campaign to carve out an independent state, they call “Khalistan’,
Five militants also surrendered before the Punjab minister of state for irrigation and power, Surinder Kapoor, in Mansa, police claim.
In an encounter in village Bahadur Nagar in Tam Taran police district , five militants of a newly formed militant outfit, Lok Mukti Force of Khalistan (LMFK), including its chief, Dr Jagatar Singh alias Jora Jallad and Dy chief, Bikar Singh , were killed.
Police said the militants were involved in several incidents of policemen killings. Two ak-47 rifles, three guns, one rocket, four detonators and three-kg of explosive material were recovered from the encounter site.
An army soldier Bahadur Tang, who was seriously wounded by militants near village Abdul in Batala district on Thursday, ‘succumbed to injuries in a hospital late Friday
Article extracted from this publication >> July 17, 1992
