NEW DELHI(PTI): Two militant leaders of the Bhindranwale Tigers Force of Khalistan (BTEK) were deported back to India from Hong Kong, reported on Sept. 9.
A police spokesman in Chandigarh said the two militants, Balwinder Singh alias Lala, who was one of the most wanted militants in Punjab, and his accomplice Harjit Singh, were on Wednesday put in an Air India flight to Calcutta.
Both the militants were injured as they jumped through a third floor window of airport building at Bangkok to escape. The militants were earlier arrested On Sept.5 and efforts were made to deport them to India but there were immigration wrangling’s following which a Police party from Punjab was Sent to Hong Kong to bring them back home, the spokesman said. Balwinder Singh, who was earlier an active member of the Sikh Students Federation subsequently became a regular member of the BTFK and later emerged as a key coordinator with another militant outfit, the Babbar Khalsa. He was in volved in several crimes in Ropar and Chandigarh, the Spokesman said.
Article extracted from this publication >> September 17, 1993
