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Bandi Singhs

Sikh political prisoners and the long campaign for their release.

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  1. 1987-1993Peak Kharku periodAll major Kharku organizations operational
  2. Sep 11, 1993Raisina Road car bomb in Delhi and the Bhullar caseA car bomb outside the Youth Congress offices killed nine on 11 Sep 1993; Devinder Pal Singh Bhullar was sentenced to death, and the sentence was commuted in 2014.
  3. Aug 31, 1995Beant Singh assassinated by Dilawar SinghEffective end of the active Kharku sangharsh
  4. Jan 22, 2004Burail Jail escape: four undertrials tunnel outOn the night of 21-22 Jan 2004 four undertrials, three of them accused in the Beant Singh assassination, tunnelled out of the Model Jail at Burail, Chandigarh.
  5. Apr 22, 2026Supreme Court gives the Centre a last two weeks on Rajoana's mercy pleaAfter deadlines in 2025 passed, the Court told the Centre to file its reply in two weeks on Balwant Singh Rajoana's plea to commute his death sentence, filed through the SGPC in 2012.
  6. Jul 22, 2026Rajoana writes to the Akal Takht to summon the BJP's Sikh leaders over his mercy petitionBhai Balwant Singh Rajoana asked the acting Jathedar to summon the BJP's Sikh leaders over a mercy petition pending about 15 years, or else have the SGPC withdraw it.

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