CHANDIGARH: Sukhjinder Singh, a senior Akali leader, nine security men and six nationalists were among 19 people killed in state of Punjab’ since Sunday night.

Also shot at and injured were 25 security men in separate incidents. An abortive bid was made on the life of a DSP and looted over Rs one lakh in the past 24 hours.

Four unidentified men were killed in a five hour encounter with security forces near Dugri village in Tarn Taran police station area Monday. Arms were recovered from the dead men.

The building of the cooperative bank in Fatehpur Rajput and village in Amritsar district Monday.

Militants gunned down Mr Sukhjinder Singh, an Akali leader, and injured his wife Surinder Kaur near village Kahnuwan in Gurdaspur district. Militants also shot dead three persons Charanjit Singh, Rattan Singh and Nirbhai Singh at Baulotpur village in Ludhiana district.

A Black Cat gang took away Rs 1, 56 lakh from the Punjab National Bank branch in Alliwal village of Batala police district after killing the gunman Avtar Singh.

The bullet ridden body of Constable Harnam Singh, was found near Meshampur village of Majitha police district.

Two police constables on the bank guard duty were shot at and injured near Gharga village in Ropar district.

B.C. ambushed the vehicle of the DSP of Gurdaspur Sadar, Mr Jaimal Singh, near Pathanwal village and opened fire injuring Constable Ramesh Kumar.

Four policemen of a patrol which went to repulse a militant attack on an SP O post in Wadala village in Amnitsar district were killed in a landmine blast near the village. Twelve persons, including two Border Security Force personnel (BSF), were killed and 10 injured in unabated violence on Oct 16.

A BSF soldier, Satnam Singh was shot dead near Dulka village in the state.

Police found the body of Baldev Raj, an employee of the irrigation department, near Mana wala village in Punjab’s Amritsar district.

One Kulwant Singh was gunned down by militants at a Derain Surkha village of Kapurthala district.

Two intruders were shot dead by security personnel in the Dera Baba Nanak sector of Gurdaspur district.

A BSF head constable Purshottam Kumar, who was posted at Shikar Machhian in Derababa Nanak sector of Indo Pak border, was shot dead.

In Amritsar city, some men gunned down one Dalbir Singh earlier abducted from his house in Khadoor Sahib last night. His bullet riddled body was picked up today from the road.

Militants made an abortive attempt to blow up a mini bus by a planting a landmine in village gunman Khurd of Gurdaspur district, some passengers were injured, police said.

Meanwhile, one of the men killed in Monday’s encounter at village Sujjawala in Ludhiana district has been identified as Jagga Singh, area commander of Khalistan liberation Force.”

Two persons were killed under Sadar police station area of Sangrur district. The assailants armed with AK47 rifles intruded into the house of Hakam Singh and shot him and Bant Singh dead and injured another person, Ajit Singh. Five empties of AK47 were recovered from the spot.

One Janak Singh of Kahnwan village in Gurdaspur district was shot dead at his farm house.

Another person Kabal Singh was shot dead at Qadian.

In Jalandhar, the state’s commercial Centre, ultras shot dead 2 shopkeeper Charan Das and injured another person Tirath Singh under Banga police station.

Three armed men went to the house of Bahadur Singh, a Pun: jab police assistant sub inspector in village Nahian Wala in Bhatinda district and shot at and injured him, his two relatives Jaskaran Singh and Jasbir Kaur.

Eighteen persons, including five members of a family, a district president of the Akali Dal (Badal) and two security men, were killed on Oct 19,

Three banks were looted, a manager of an insurance company and his son were kidnaped.

Timely detection of a bomb, sent as “Diwali gift” to the house of a leading eye surgeon of Amritsar, averted a tragedy. Experts later defused the bomb.

Armed men shot dead five members of a family in Jhangir Pura village in Tarn Taran district Thursday night. They were tied to trees and shot dead at close range.

Also gunned down was a head constable in Doburji village, Majitha, while a woman was killed in Kotli Nasib Khan, Cheretta, in the cross fire between militants and security men.

Another head constable, who was wounded in firing at a police patrol party outside Jandiala, died.

Also gunned down were two persons of Chack Arora Wali, in Ferozepur

district.

In Chur Khalchian village three persons of a family were shot dead.

Two armed men went to the house of one person of Mangli village in Hoshiarpur district and demanded Rs 50,000 from him. The man was shot dead when he refused to part with the money.

One person of Budhsinghwala ‘was shot in his house.

Reports said militants, armed with Ak-47 rifles and hand grenades, attacked the police post at Bhagat Tullian village, in Dera Babananak, in Batala district Thursday night. They managed to escape when security forces returned the fire. No one was hurt in the incident.

Surjit Singh, the president of Kapurthala district unit of Akali Dal (Badal) and a close associate of senior Akali leader and former Punjab education minister Sukhjinder Singh, was shot dead at Bagowal in Kapurthala district.

According to a report from Amritsar, area commander Bakhatwar Singh of Khalistan Commando Force led by panthic committee member Baba Wassan Singh Zafarwal, was shot dead by security forces in an encounter near Thathgarh village, Jhabbal,

Chief of the Tarn Taran police district Narinder Pal Singh said in Amritsar Bakhatwar Singh was a close associate of leader Kashmir Singh Thathgarh and was involved in many cases including attacks on security forces.

Thirteen people were killed and 20 others were injured on Oct 17.

Among those killed were four army soldiers and four militants while the injured included 15 army men.

Security forces arrested four men and recovered a haul of arms and ammunition from them.

Militants attacked a special army train, killing four soldiers and injuring 15 others in Ferozepore district Tuesday night.

Reports said militants had planted a bomb between Makhu and Mallan wala railway stations on the mainline Jalandhar Ferozepur section of the northern railway.

Six bogies and engine of the train got derailed and heavy army equipment fell out. The militants escaped before the army personnel could take any action.

Black cats shot dead one person at Talwandi Partal village in Kaputthala district Tuesday night. In another incident in the same district two men and a woman were gunned down at Ibrahim wala village while a home guard’s house was set on fire in Tandi village.

In Tarn Taran district, at Lakhan, they shot dead three members of a family Tuesday night. Eleven empties of Ak47 were recovered from the spot.

In yet another incident, one Punjab police constable was shot dead near Dand village, also in Tarn Taran district.

Police picked up a bullet ridden body from Srihar gobindpur area of Majitha police district.

Security forces captured a huge cache of arms from three men arrested near the Indo Pakistan border in Khem Karan.

Article extracted from this publication >> October 26, 1990