BELGIUM: K.P\S. Gill former Police chief of Punjab and Presidents of the India Hockey Federation was on a visit to Belgium when he was accosted by three members of the Babbar Khalsa (T) who live in Belgium.

Gill was sitting in a McDonalds drunk when one of the young men come up to him and asked if he was KP.S. Gill, when Gill responded “Yes I’m Gill, what do you want?” One of the boys responded “I’m Babbar” and “How could you kill thousands of Sikh boys in India?”

‘The young men started slapping Gill around, stopping traffic in both directions for about 200 meters.

The boys attempted to get the weapons from the trunk of Gill’s car. Gill tried to pull a gun from his pocket bat was stopped by one of the young men. Then Gill’s companion took a revolver from Gill’s pocket and held it to one boy’s head during the altercation.

‘The young men took Gill by the tie and dragged him to his car and then took his turban from him as a way to insult the much hated former policeman.

The young boys disappeared into the crowd before the police arrived. Gill and his companions went back to the hotel, canceled the remainder of their trip and were back in Delhi that same night.

Article extracted from this publication >>  March 13, 1996