Black Cats Part 2

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Introduction to the Black Cats

When the freedom movement of Khalistan was at the peak, the Indian government adopted many immoral and insincere policies to suppress the movement. One of such policies was to malign the reputation of the Sikh fighters by forming groups of goons and criminals and sending them to the homes of the Sikhs to carry out immoral activities in disguise of Sikh freedom fighters. Such groups were called “Black Cats”. The intent behind this was to turn the public against the Sikh movement, giving the police more freedom to hunt down Sikhs and kill them in large numbers. These policies were kept at highly secret level. The groups of criminals, dressed as Sikhs, would go to different villages, loot the public and dishonor women. Because of the increasing activities of the Cats the public became aware of these groups. Some reporters managed to get interviews of some of the Cats which greatly exposed the tyrant Indian government. At first the police denied the existence of such groups but as more and more evidence came forward the police had no choice but to tell the truth in which they felt no shame and openly made statements favoring these groups and their activities. The head of Punjab police Julio Ribiero clearly stated in one of the press conference:

“The mission of the government is to eradicate the Sikh movement. Whether it is done legally or illegally, it does not matter. In wartimes law does not matter. What matters is the destruction of the enemy.” (Julio Ribiero)

During his interview with Parteesh Nandi, the editor of Illustrated Weekly, Ribiero briefly explained the purpose and mission of the Black Cats.

Patrolling the areas at night was a big problem. The terrorists (Sikhs fighters) had started to kill the police groups patrolling the areas at night. This presented us a great problem as most of the police parties feared to go out at night. We did not know what to do. At last it was suggested by someone that the police should be sent dressed up as Sikhs. So we hired many young men including those who were weak-minded and joined the Sikh movement for the sole purpose of making money. Then we used to send them to patrol the areas where no police party wanted to go and no person was allowed to leave the house. This made easier for our groups to identify the terrorists and kill them since it would only be the terrorist groups wondering outside. (Julio Ribiero, Illustrated Weekly)

But Ribiero’s statement was fraction of the truth. The misdeeds of the Cats were published in a report in Punjabi Tribune newspaper in 1988. According to the report:

The Black Cats dressed as Sikhs, carrying assault rifles break into anyone’s house. They claim themselves to be the true freedom fighters. They eat and drink there and then dishonor the women of the house. At many places they have picked up many young girls from their homes. When some organizations fighting for human rights come forward to fight this oppression against the police, the activities carried by the Cats are increased dramatically so that the Sikh fighters could be insulted at the same level as that of the police. For some time now these Cats have been successful in blaming their misdeeds on the Sikh freedom fighters. At some places, the Cats go to house of a rich person to dine and wine there. After a few days, they send the police to the same house in the accusation of sheltering the terrorists. When the home owner denies such charges, he is given every little detail of the account. The home owner fearing the torture of the police pays large amount of money to buy his way out. This serves the purpose of making easy money and identifying the people who sympathize with the Sikh movement. (Punjabi Tribune, 1988)

While carrying out the misdeeds wearing white clothes and Kirpans some Cats were captured by the public who told the truth to save their lives. Many people started their campaigns against the police to terminate such groups but the government paid no attention to it. On the contrary, a puppet of the government K. P. Gill openly made the following statement:

Government’s security forces cannot do anything without the help of the Cats. Terminating these groups is out of the questions. (K.P. Gill, India Today)

Many of the Cats were enrolled in Colleges and the Universities so that they could target young educated Sikhs and discourage them from joining the movement. For this purpose the government fully supported the Black Cats. Sikh freedom fighters eliminated many of these groups. Even after the movement had been brought down, the Cats continued to loot and rape. At last the government had no choice but to eliminate them.

Source: Indian Terrorism on the land of Punjab by Baljit Singh Khalsa

Translated by SikhFreedom

A. S. I. Dalbeera

Dalbeera was a resident of village Pakhokay, Taran Taaran. After receiving education from Khadur Sahib and Sports College in Jalandhar, he joined the police. Due to his immoral character he established relations with drug smugglers and made huge amount of money. After a while, he was fired from his job for murdering someone in his drug business. All of this happened in February, 1984. Subsequently, he started hanging around with Sikh freedom fighters and became very close to them after Operation Blue Star.

When the Indian government started forming criminal groups known as Black Cats, Dalbeera was on the top of hiring list. He was not only a mastered criminal but also an ex-police officer who knew all about torture and police brutality. This made him one of the most qualified criminal for the police job. So he was hired back to his post in 1986. He was initially hired under the command of S.S.P. Izhaar Alam and later on worked for S.S.P. Seetal Daas. After he became an experienced criminal he was appointed a leader of a Cat group consisting of about 10 criminals.

Along with his drug smuggling business he became successful in killing many of the top Sikh fighters such as Bhai Paramjit Singh from Taran Taaran, Bhai Ranjit Singh and Bhai Balwinder Singh and picked up Bhai Gurbachan Singh from Mohali and turned him in to the police. His criminal activities turned him into a ruthless killer. He killed Bhai Sukhwinder Singh and Bhai Harinder Singh, companions of Bhai Harjinder Singh Ji Jindha, by shooting them in the back of their heads. It was the same Sikhs who had saved his life couple of years earlier. While he was firing the bullets, one of the police groups was patrolling the area. Upon hearing the fire shots the police showed up and thought Dalbeera was just a regular day killer who was killing for robbery. The police chased after him and fired some shots but no bullet touched Dalbeera. He quickly ran into the house of Julio Ribiero who called the press conference the very next day and made a statement that two terrorists had been killed in a police encounter.

After this incident Dalbeera became the favorite of Ribiero. He was promoted and made an A.S.I. He was given a police car and couple of bodyguards. He was free from reporting to any police station. Dalbeera then increased his activities and started to rob banks, rich people and raping women. He bought land in every major city of Punjab and built his mansions. He was not stopped by any police officer because he used to share his looted wealth with them. One time, he kidnapped some businessmen who were from Jammu and ransomed them for millions of rupees and gold. He kept it all secret from other police officers. Eventually the police officials found out and S.S.P Seetal Das called Dalbeera in his office. S.P. Baldev Brar was there as well. When they asked about the money and gold Dalbeera refused to acknowledge the happenings of the incident. After intense argument Dalbeera pulled out his pistol and killed both police officers. Hearing the sounds of the bullets the guardsmen came running inside and shot Dalbeera dead. Three main officers died at the same time which was a big loss to the government. The news of their death spread all around in Punjab and their misdeeds were exposed to the public. While talking to the news editor of India Today, Ribiero stated:

Death of Dalbeera is a great loss that has done irreplaceable damage to us. Had the two officers not died with him, our activities wouldn’t have been exposed to the public. (India Today, 1988)

Source: Indian Terrorism on the land of Punjab by Baljit Singh Khalsa

Translated by SikhFreedom