Dilawar Singh Babbar (1970-1995) or Dilawar Singh Jai Singh Wala was a Punjab policeman and Babbar A member of the Bal Khalsa International (BKI), he acted as a suicide bomber to assassinate former Punjab Chief Minister Bit Singh on 31 August 1995 at the Secretariat Complex, Chandigarh.
Wiki/Biography
Dilawar Singh was born on Tuesday, August 18, 1970, in his mother’s village Panjgrain, Punjab (he died aged 25). His zodiac sign is Leo. Dilawar Singh’s father moved to Patiala from his hometown Jai Singh Wala and Dilawar grew up on Street No. 1. 12 Guru Nanak Nagar. There he met Balwant Singh Rajoana, Lakhwinder Singh Lakha and Gurmeet Singh , and became friends, they were both later accused of assassinating Beant Singh. Lakha lives at the intersection of Street 9 and Street 13, while Gurmeet Singh lives in Street 7. 14. After completing his formal education, Dilawar Singh started his career as a Punjab Police officer along with Balwant Singh Rajoana.
Photos of Balwant Singh Rajoana and Dilawar Singh Babar
appearance
Height (approximately): 5′ 9″
Hair color: black
Eye color: black
family
Parents and siblings
Dilawar Singh Babbar’s father Harnek Singh worked as a senior assistant in the Youth Welfare Department of Panjab University, Patiala. His mother’s name is Sujit Kaur. Dilawar has two brothers, Chamkaur Singh and Harvinder Singh. Chamkaur Singh worked as a Senior Financial Analyst and Revenue Officer in the Department of Youth Services, Government of India.
Dilawal Singh Babar’s father
SGPC staff awarded Siropa to Dilawar Singh’s mother in memory of her son
SGPC staff awarded Siropa to Dilawar Singh’s brother Chamkaur Singh
wife and children
He is unmarried.
rebellion in punjab
In the aftermath of Operation Blue Star, the assassination of Indira Gandhi and the anti-Sikh riots of 1984, Bit Singh was sworn in as Chief Minister of Punjab in 1992. At the time, well-armed Sikh separatists in terrorism-ridden Punjab province had been fighting for an independent homeland in Khalistan for nearly 12 years. While serving in the Punjab Police Force, Dilawal Singh joined one of the separatist groups called Babar Khalsa International (BKI). From June 9, 1993 to September 18, 1994, he served as Special Operations Officer in Fatehgarh Sahib district. As a special operations officer, he witnessed government-sanctioned counterterrorism operations in which Punjab police carried out multiple extrajudicial killings and illegal detentions of young Sikhs. By November 1994, the Punjab government fired several special operations officers across the state, including Dilawar Singh. Through this dismissal, Dilawar Singh realized that the government hired the SPO only to massacre innocent Sikh youths in the name of anti-terrorism operations. These events infuriated Dilawar, who then volunteered to assassinate Punjab Chief Minister Bit Singh. Although Bit Singh succeeded in reducing terrorism in Punjab and restoring overall respect for Sikhs in the country that had been lost after Indira Gandhi’s assassination, he was accused of sanctioning fake killings, kidnappings during the Punjab insurgency and secret cremations, at a time when the government was taking action. Trying to get rid of Khalistan militants. Thereafter, Dilawal rented a one-room accommodation at a secluded place in Latoli village of Tehsil Rajgarh in Sirmur district around May or June 1995, where he held a meeting with other co-conspirators of the BKI over the assassination. Meeting.
Bint Singh Assassination
On August 31, 1995, Dilawar Singh and backup bomber Balwant Singh Rajoana traveled in a freshly painted white Ambassador car with a Delhi license plate, arriving at the Secretariat building in Chandigarh. Dilawar Singh was wearing a Punjab police uniform and had 1.5 kilograms of explosives in a belt-like belt around his waist. After a while, after Balwant left, Dilawar wrote a couplet in Gurmukhi on a piece of paper, which read:
Je mein shaheedan di yaad wich geet na gaaye, teh ohna diyan ruhan Kuralun giyan” (If I do not recite rhymes in memory of the martyrs, their souls will be tortured).
At 5:10 p.m., three white ambassadors stopped to pick up the prime minister near the VIP porch of the Secretariat building. Just as Bit Singh was about to get into his car, Dilawal walked towards his bullet-proof vehicle and pressed the bomb button. In addition to Bit Singh, the explosion also claimed the lives of 17 other people, including three Indian commandos and Bit Singh’s close friend Ranchod Singh Mann. The BKI subsequently claimed responsibility for Bit Singh’s death and blamed the deep-rooted criminal conspiracy on the wanton atrocities committed against innocent Sikhs during his tenure as Chief Minister.
People click on the secretariat building in Chandigarh after suicide bomber Dilawar Singh Babbar assassinated CM Beant Singh on August 31, 1995. photo
The aftermath of the assassination
In September 1995, the Chandigarh police recovered an abandoned Ambassador car bearing a Delhi number and arrested the first criminal, Lakhwinder Singh. By February 1996, the police identified other conspirators: Gurmeet Singh, Naseeb Singh, Navjot Singh, Jagtar Singh Tara, Shamsher Singh, Jagtar Singh Hawara, Balwant Singh Rajoana and Paramjit Singh Bheora. On December 25, 1997, Balwant Singh Rajoana admitted his involvement in the murder of Beant Singh before a makeshift court in Brier Jail, Chandigarh. Before being silenced, he raised slogans in support of Khalistani,
Khalistan Zindabad, Badi Rawal Singh Zindabad! “
His confession shocked prison authorities and reporters, who then asked Lajoana: “Why would someone want to give up his life at a time like this?” LaJoana replied:
Tusi key jano dosti kinj nebhai jandi hai. ” (How do you know how to achieve friendship?)
Apparently, Dilawal and Balwant decided who would be the suicide bomber by tossing a coin. So when Dilawal won the fatal throw and agreed to sacrifice his life, he asked Balwant Singh to admit his involvement in the crime when the time came.
Other criminals who assassinated Bit Singh
Balwant Singh Rajoana (reserve bomber)
On December 25, 1997, former Punjab Police constable Balwant Singh Rajoana admitted his involvement in the killing of Beant Singh at a makeshift court in Brier Jail, Chandigarh. On August 1, 2007, the Special Court of India’s Central Bureau of Investigation sentenced Rajoana to death. A Chandigarh court issued a death warrant to the Patiala jail authorities for the execution of Rajoana on March 31, 2012. Rajoana was lodged in the Patiala Central Jail. The operation, which was scheduled to be conducted at the Patiala Central Jail, was put on hold after Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal met Pratibha Patil to seek leniency for Rajoana. Later, his death sentence was commuted to life imprisonment on the grounds that he had been imprisoned for nearly 26 years.
Balwant Singh Rajoana
Jagtar Singh Khawala (Mastermind)
Khawala is believed to be the mastermind behind the plot to assassinate Bit Singh. As a member of the BKI, Hawala arranged for explosives and funds to purchase the ambassador’s car used in the assassination. In January 2004, he escaped from the Brier jail along with Tara and others after digging a 110-foot-long tunnel inside the Chandigarh high-security jail. However, he was arrested again in 2005 in Delhi. Later, his death sentence was commuted to life imprisonment.
Jagtar Singh Hawala
Jagtar Singh Tara (Mastermind)
Tara works as a mechanic and taxi driver in Delhi. An active member of the BKI, Tara helped Hawala purchase the car and take it to Chandigarh where he had it repainted to enter the secretariat building. Tara was arrested in September 1995 in Delhi. However, he escaped with Ha Yuan during the trial of the case in 2004 and remained on the run for 11 years. In 2015, he was arrested in Thailand. In 2018, he was sentenced to life imprisonment.
Jagtar Singh Tara in Thailand
others
Lakhwinder Singh is a Punjab Armed Police officer attached to the official vehicles wing of the secretariat. Gurmeet Singh holds a diploma in engineering and worked at the Chandigarh service center of a consumer electronics company. Shamsher Singh, Lakhwinder Singh and Gurmeet Singh were sentenced to life imprisonment by the RK Sondhi court at a makeshift court in Brier Jail . Meanwhile, Naseeb Singh was sentenced to 10 years in prison, a term he had already served during a trial that lasted more than 11 years. The seventh accused Navjot Singh was acquitted by the special court.
address
House No. 23, Street 12, Guru Nanak Nagar, Patiala, Punjab, India.
Facts/Trivia
- During a hearing before then District and Sessions Judge Amar Dutt, Balwant Singh Rajoana while remembering Dilawal said:
This is nothing but divine intervention. As Bhai Dilawar Singh approached the Chief Minister, everyone around him was stunned for a moment. That’s why there were no witnesses. “
- On June 15, 2022, when the Shiromani Gurudwara Prabandhak Committee (SGPC) installed the portrait of Dilawar Singh at the Central Sikh Museum inside the Golden Temple complex, Dilawar Singh is making headlines again. The installation of the portrait sparked controversy, with Anti-Terrorism Front of India (ATFI) president Viresh Shandilya saying it showed the resurgence of terrorism in Punjab and calling out Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann ) to stop installing this portrait. However, during the installation ceremony, SGPC Chairman praised Dilawar Singh saying:
Shahid Bhai Dilawar Singh put an end to atrocities and gross human rights violations against Sikhs at that time. The decision to sacrifice oneself is not possible without the blessings of the Guru and whenever atrocities happen in Qaum (community/country) Sikhs always create history through sacrifice. “
- When the police searched Dilawar Singh’s home on September 5, 1995, they found a pamphlet about Shaheed Bhagat Singh. The last page of the book contains a pen sketch of what looks like a belt bomb with a detonator device.
- On March 23, 2012, the Akal Takht, the highest secular seat of the Khalsa, conferred the title of “National Martyr” on Dilawal Singh Babar. Lajoana, on the other hand, was awarded the title of “Living Martyr”.
- Before his death, Dilawar Singh gave his photo to Balwant Singh, with a couplet scrawled on the back:
Sada tah ek duniya ander jogi wala fera hai,Naa hi eh jagg tera sajna, na hi eh jag mera hai,Es sohni nu doban lyi tah kacha ghara Bathera hai. “
(I came to this world as a saint. This world is neither yours nor mine. If you want to sink this “Sony”, this raw pot is enough.)
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