August 18, 1970 - Dilawar Singh Babbar
A serving police officer who turned his position of state authority against the state itself, he carried out one of the most politically significant assassinations of the Punjab insurgency era. His attack on a sitting chief minister — executed as a suicide bombing — marked a dramatic escalation in a conflict already defined by violence on multiple sides. The institutional betrayal at the heart of his story distinguishes him from other actors in that period.
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Dilawar Singh (18 August 1970 – 31 August 1995) was the assassin of Beant Singh, the chief minister of Punjab, India amid the insurgency in Punjab. He was a serving Punjab Police officer and became a suicide bomber for the Babbar Khalsa International. He assassinated Beant Singh by blowing up his bullet-proof car at 5 p.m. on 31 August 1995 in the city of Chandigarh killing the chief minister and 17 others.
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