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Bhindranwale was born on 2 June 1947, [5]: 151 as Jarnail Singh Brar to a Jat Sikh family, in the village of Rode, [3] in Moga District (then a part of Faridkot District), [58] located in the region of Malwa. [1]
Dalbir Singh and Swaran Singh Rode are two others accused in the case. [11] Sant Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, who had accused Narain of portraying the Sikh gurus as "lovers of wine and women" in his newspapers in spite of protests, [12] was implicated in the assassination, though it was the Dal Khalsa which had likely committed it. [13]
Shabeg Singh was mentioned in a speech by Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale while highlighting injustices to various Sikhs in 1983. He participated in the Amritsar Rally in the Golden Rail Morcha where over 10,000 ex-servicemen participated. [20] He joined Sikh militants, [5] where he served as Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale's military adviser. [13]
Fauja Singh died as he was being rushed to the hospital, and the cremation of Fauja Singh and the 12 other Sikhs occurred in a large ceremony attended by tens of thousands; the photos of his maimed body, with a bullet wound in his left eye, spread along with the news of the death quickly. [2] This event brought Bhindranwale to limelight in the ...
Operation Blue Star was a military operation by the Indian Armed Forces conducted between 1 and 10 June 1984 to remove Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale and other Sikh militants from the Golden Temple (Harmandir Sahib), a holy site of Sikhism, and its adjacent buildings.
Amrik Singh was a prominent leader of the Damdami Taksal along with Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale. He contested the 1979 Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) election, backed by Bhindranwale, but lost to Jiwan Singh Umranangal. [5] On 26 April 1982, he led a campaign to get Amritsar the status of a "holy city".
Iqbal Singh Lalpura served as an investigating officer for the 1978 Sikh–Nirankari clash and also played a pivotal role in the arrest of Sikh separatist leader Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale in April 1981. Bhindranwale was a prominent figure in the Khalistan movement. During this critical operation, Bhindranwale had agreed to surrender, but on ...
Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale offered himself to the police for arrest on 20 September 1981, [38] and was taken to a circuit house instead of prison. Shortly after Bhindranwale courted arrest, agitated Sikhs clashed with the police and paramilitary forces, resulting in the death of 18 protestors. [39]