Bhai Gurjant Singh Rajasthani

Bhai Gurjant Singh Rajasthani was a Kharku commander who led one of the factions of the Khalistan Commando Force (KCF). Little is published about his early life and the sources for his career are thin, so this profile is short.

Key moments

• 1988 to 1989: the KCF lost its leaders one after another, Labh Singh in 1988 and Kanwarjit Singh Sultanwind in 1989. Wikipedia's account says the force then split into factions, among them those led by Wassan Singh Zaffarwal, Paramjit Singh Panjwar and Gurjant Singh Rajasthani.
• 2 March 1990: he and Gurbachan Singh Manochahal of the Bhindranwale Tiger Force of Khalistan claimed responsibility for the killing of Pyara Lal, superintendent of Amritsar jail, whom they accused of torturing Sikhs in prison.
• April 1990: his KCF faction, Manochahal's Bhindranwale Tiger Force and the Dashmesh Regiment (Matthewal) formed an alliance and set up their own Panthic Committee.
• 29 August 1991: he is named as behind a bomb attack in Chandigarh on Sumedh Saini, then a Senior Superintendent of Police. Saini survived and three of his bodyguards were killed.
• 31 August 1991: he died. The published account says police surrounded a house where he was with his wife and young son, that there was a bounty of two million rupees on him, and that he was found dead; it adds that he swallowed a cyanide capsule. Police called it an encounter.

Remembered as one of the commanders who held a faction of the KCF in the years after its first leaders fell, and for the 1990 alliance with Manochahal's group.