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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Beant Singh (assassin)</span> Sikh bodyguard and assassin of Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Satwant Singh</span> Sikh bodyguard and assassin of Indira Gandhi (1962–1989)

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Beant Singh (politician)</span> Assassinated Chief Minister of Punjab

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Dilawar Singh Babbar</span> Assassin of Beant Singh

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Kehar Singh</span> Former Indian politician and convicted criminal

Kehar Singh was an Assistant in the erstwhile Directorate General of Supply and Disposal, New Delhi, and was tried and executed for conspiracy in the plot of the Indira Gandhi assassination, carried out by Satwant Singh and Beant Singh. He was hanged in Tihar Jail on 6 January 1989. Beant Singh was the nephew of Kehar Singh. The assassination was "motivated" by Operation Blue Star.

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Sardar Beant Singh State University</span> Engineering college in Punjab, India

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Jagtar Singh Hawara</span> Jailed Jathedar of Akal Takht

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Assassination of Indira Gandhi</span> 1984 encounter in New Delhi, India

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Balwant Singh Rajoana</span> Convicted Indian assassin

Balwant Singh Rajoana was convicted for the assassination of Beant Singh on 31 August 1995. Rajoana was sentenced to death on 1 August 2007 by a special CBI court in Chandigarh. Beant Singh was killed by Balwant Singh's associate Dilawar Singh Babbar and Balwant Singh was the backup human bomb to be used had Dilawar failed in his mission.

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<i>Kaum De Heere</i> 2014 Indian film

Kaum De Heere is a 2014 Indian Punjabi-language biographical film by Ravinder Ravi based on the lives of Satwant Singh, Beant Singh and Kehar Singh, who assassinated Indira Gandhi, the Prime Minister of India in 1984.

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">1992 Punjab Legislative Assembly election</span>

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