CHANDIGARH: Twenty-three persons, including Inderpal Singh Gill, an All India Sikh Students Federation (AISSF) supported independent candidate for the Qila Raipur assembly seat, were killed overnight May 27.

Nineteen people, including an Akali Dal (L) candidate, were killed Monday.

Amrit Pal Goel, the Akali Dal (L) candidate for the Malerkotla assembly seat, was shot dead by militants at his petrol situation at Malerkotla late May 28.

Jaswant Singh Bedi an independent candidate from Mukstar was shot on May 27.

The others killed through how the State included four securitymen and 13 militants. Over the week 127 people were killed.

Two bombs exploded-one in Jalandhar City and the other in Ludhiana district No loss of life was reported in the bomb blasts.

Suspected militants shot dead Gill near Sahora village of Ludhiana district.

The election to the Qila Raipur assembly seat has been countermanded. Nine candidates contesting 12, Assembly seats and one nominee for the Ludhiana parliamentary seat have been killed by militants so far. One candidate has dies of heart failure.

An unidentified militant and two constables of the Punjab Armed.

Police (PAP) were drowned in a river near village Mullewal in Gurdaspur district Monday, police said.

The unidentified militant was asked to stop at a check post, but fled and jumped into the river with the four PAP personnel chasing him following suit. The militant and two constables were drowned due to the fast current of the river water. Their bodies had not yet been recovered, police said.

Fourteen militants, including major general Harbej Singh and area commander Hardey Singh belonging to the Bhindranwale Tigers Force of Khalistan (Sanga faction), were among 39 persons killed May 26.

A bomb planted in a flower pot in a public park in Jalandhar exploded, but no loss of life was reported as the usual Sunday crowd was not there in the park situated in the heart of the city.

A Punjab police constable was shot dead by militants on Jhabbal Road on the outskirts of Amritsar City Sunday.

A BSF Naka party firec at two militants who escaped unhurt near Dharampura village in Majitha police district and recovered three Ak-47 rifles, eight magazines, four.30 bore pistols and about400 cartridges from the scene.

In two separate encounters one in Amritsar and the other in Jalandhar districts on Sunday nine top militants, carrying rewards on their heads, and a police head constable were killed and a huge quantity of arms and ammunition was recovered, police said.

 

Article extracted from this publication >> May 31, 1991