CHANDIGARH: Feb 7 A top militant suspected of being involved in the killing of M.L. Verma additional principal secretary to Haryana Chief Minister and five others committed suicide in the northern Indian state of Haryana Friday Three persons including a hard-core militant were killed in the northern Indian state of Punjab Feb 7.
The top militant identified as Balwinder Singh alias Bhinda and suspected to be involved in gunning down of Verma and five others near Kakkar Marja village of Ambala district Saturday consumed cyanide and died when surrounded by policemen in Lalhari Kalan village the native village of Vermain Yamunanagar district Friday.
Bhinda was hiding in his father in-laws house in the village.
Meanwhile there was no breakthrough in the gunning down of five Haryana policemen near Barara also in Ambala district Thursday night.
Megh Singh of the Rajindra hospital Patiala was gunned down by militants at his house in Punjab Bagh area Thursday night while Lembar Singh was killed in Ojla village in Jalandhar.
Feb. 8
At least six persons were killed andcaboutc40cinjured eight of them seriously when a bomb exploded in a compartment of the Ferozepur Delhi-Malwa express near Nanwana in Haryana on Feb.8.
The bomb exploded in the moving express train while it was crossing Dahrondi railway station eight kms from Narwana on the Tohana-Narwana section of the northern railway in Jind district The train was coming from Bhatinda in northem Punjab.
Shops and commercial establishments in various towns in Jind and Hissar districts including Tohana Jakhal and Narwana downed their shutters as soon as the news of the blast spread.
Senior police officers had reached Narwana and security in the sensitive areas of the two districts was being beefed up to check repercussions.
The seriously injured including ahead constable of RPF and three railway workers were admitted to a civil hospital at Narwana. Meanwhile a Punjab militant lobbed a grenade at a police je an attempted to attack a civil hospital at Narwana.
Meanwhile, a Punjab militant lobbed a grenade at a police jeep an attempted to attack a retire Police officer at his residence it north Delhi.
The militant was caught when he along with a colleague went the Kamla Nagar residence of retired police officer Bhaskar police said.
One of them was nabbed outside the house by some local people and a beat constable while the other tried to escape. He was chased by a police control room van and a jeep carrying a station house officer of Roshnara roa Police station R.P.Gautam:
The militant then lobbed a grenade at the jeep but no one was hurt in the incident police said adding that the jeep was extensively damaged He was arrested on the spot.
Deputy Commissioner of police (Control room) Uijwal Mishrasaid the two hailed from Punjab and interrogations were still in progress to uncover their plans.
He said there could be a few more Punjab militants who accompanied the two arrested militants and managed to escape.
Mishra denied reports that the militant tried to consume a cyanide pill on being caught by the police.
Police are interrogating both the militants whose identities and the outfit were not immediately made known.
Feb. 9
Eight members of a family including three women were killed and one person seriously injured when a man ran amuck and allegedly hacked to death among others his parents and a brother in Wapui district of Amritsar district
The other people killed allegedly by Atma Singh included his two sisters-in-law and three nephews. Another brother of Atma Singh was also injured in the attack most probably with a sword the Tar Taran police chief Ajit Singh told the media.
Earlier police reports had said that five persons had been gunned down in the village.
The killed persons have been identified as Mohinder Singh and Harbans Kaur-Parents Suba Singh and his wife Gurmeet Kaur Amarjit Singh Jejman Singh Ved Singh Balwinder Kaur Jasbir Singh was seriously wounded and removed to hospital.
The alleged killer is reported to Keane.
Feb. 10
Six teachers were among 17 persons killed in Punjab when security forces thwarted a militants plan to engineer an explosion in New Delhi Sunday night.
Militants in their drive against teachers following the government’s decision to post employees including teachers on poll duty for the Feb. 19 Punjab elections shot dead six teachers in Patiala and Sangrur district. Three teachers were shot dead onFeb.10.
In the wake of the attack on teachers and to make poll arrangements the state government has ordered the closure of schools All Feb.24.
Ved Prakash head master government high school Mustafabad village under Bassi Pathanan police station in Patiala district was shot dead by two militants within the school premises
Three persons were killed when militants opened fire near Dhuri railway crossing in the congested area of Ludhiana city Monday evening. The assailants later escaped.
Gunmen gunned down a scooters Hari Mital Kaushal in “Amritsar while Sarpanch (village chief) Jagir Singh was shot dead in village Nat in Batala police district Monday evening.
Six persons were injured when a bomb exploded on the national highway grand trunk road in Mandi Gobindgarh town of Patiala district Monday.
Two Haryana police constables were injured while thwarting an attempt by three Punjab militants to enter the state near Jaknal in Hissar district Sunday night. The intruders escaped into Punjab under the cover of darkness.
Eleven persons including two militants and five school teachers were killed while security forces foiled the plan of a militant outfit to blow up an Indian Airlines plane with arrests of four militants of the outfit in Punjab Sunday night police said here.
Militants shot dead five teachers of three government high schools in Barnala in Sangrur district Monday. They were identified as Bhim Sen Sham Lal Madan Lal Satish Kumarand Parvesh Kumar.
Two unidentified militants were killed in an encounter near village Longowal in Sangrur district
Sampanch Tarlok Singh was shot dead in village Pabala in Patiala district. One person was shot dead in village Dhugga Kalan and two persons in village Uppal Bhoopa police said
Four militants of the Khalistan National Army arrested in Chattiwind locality of Amritsar district Monday confessed they had planned to blow up an Indian airlines international flight from New Delhi to Dubai and also planned explosions in the Palka Bazar at New Delhi besides planting of a bomb at a crowded place in Punjab during pre-election period.
The four militants were arrested when security forces intercepted their car at a Naka point on Mang road. The militants opened fire in bid to escape but were over powered by security men after an en-counter. Two other militants managed to escaped, police said.
Feb. 11
Sikh militants in the northern Indian state of Punjab shot dead five Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) workers who were campaigning for their party candidates for the Feb.19 elections in the strife-torn state.
Four BJP workers were killed and one was seriously injured when scooter borne militants spear heading the poll boycott campaign fired at them at two places in the Amritsar city while they were campaigning in three-wheelers Monday evening. Three of the killed were identified as Lakhbir Singh Tinku and Sunny.
Another BJP worker Jagdish Chand was gunned down by militants while he was campaigning at Jagraon near Ludhiana In both cases the militants escaped after the killings.
In other incidents in the state a sub-inspector of police and five militants were killed and a border security force post was damaged police said.
Sub-inspector Joga Singh and another person Amarjit Singh travelling in the Khadoor Sahib-Raiya bus were shot dead by two militants near village Pheruman in Majitha police district Monday. The militants were travelling in the same bus.
Militant shot dead one SurjitKaur in village Maurin Sangrurdistrict Tuesday night.
Three person’s woof them identified as Sarpanch Daljit Singh and Major Singh were gunned down in an inter-militant group lash in village Gharaun in Ropar district
An unidentified militant was killed in an encounter near village Lalto in Ludhiana district.
In an inter-militant group clash Saspanch Jagir Singh was shot head in village Natt in Batala police district.
One person was killed and 17 others were injured in a bomb explosion at Gobindgarh in Patiala district.
Bhajan Singh and Hari Mittal Khosla were shot dead in village Uppal Dhpa (lalandhar district) and in Amritsar city respectively.
Two bombs exploded within half an hour on the first floor of Punjab National Bank of village Harchowal near the BSF post in Juring a Jawan and damaging the post in Batala police district Monday
Article extracted from this publication >> February 21, 1992
