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While doing some research came across this old article from 2006 in indian outlook magazine below.

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‘Dead’ terrorists are even challenging the police for declaring them so. Gurnam Singh of Bundala village, Ferozepur district, fled the Golden Temple days before Operation Bluestar. In 1994, he was declared killed in an encounter in Ropar district. However, as Gurnam told Outlook, "I was living all along under the assumed name of Surjit Singh at Mansandwala village in Majitha district. In 1998, the police learned of my true identity and arrested me." But not before the 1994 ‘killing’ had earned the Ropar police a reward and the 1998 arrest fetched promotions for a couple of Tarn Taran police officials. "The then DGP, P.C. Dogra, had promised that he would enquire into my ‘death’, but nothing has happened. If now the police say that my death was a mistake, why did people claim rewards for it?" he asks.

interesting...I wonder how many of these lot were part of covert black cat indian/punjab government terrorist gangs in 80s/90s punjab. And how many were recruited as part of India's military R&AW's super secret "the third agency" murdering innocent civilians and also actively taking part in the Sikh genocides.

The rabbit hole of deep rooted conspiracy against Sikhs just gets more stranger and more enlightening.

 

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Dead Or Alive?

Many 'dead' Punjab terrorists are still living. But most of them prefer to stay 'killed'.

 
Chander Suta Dogra 13 March 2006
 
Dead Or Alive?
Tribhuvan Tiwari
 
Call it a case of dead men walking. But terrorists who were believed to have given up their ghosts years ago are coming back to life in Punjab. While some have been ‘reborn’ as helpers of top police officers, many others are surfacing in their villages, embarrassing police officials who took credit for killing them. In fact, the Punjab police, widely credited with crushing the Khalistan movement, is virtually scurrying for cover as former terrorists are beginning to roam the countryside once more.

‘Dead’ terrorists are even challenging the police for declaring them so. Gurnam Singh of Bundala village, Ferozepur district, fled the Golden Temple days before Operation Bluestar. In 1994, he was declared killed in an encounter in Ropar district. However, as Gurnam told Outlook, "I was living all along under the assumed name of Surjit Singh at Mansandwala village in Majitha district. In 1998, the police learned of my true identity and arrested me." But not before the 1994 ‘killing’ had earned the Ropar police a reward and the 1998 arrest fetched promotions for a couple of Tarn Taran police officials. "The then DGP, P.C. Dogra, had promised that he would enquire into my ‘death’, but nothing has happened. If now the police say that my death was a mistake, why did people claim rewards for it?" he asks.

More bizarre is the case of Harpreet Singh ‘Happy’ of the Babbar Khalsa. Not only was he ‘killed’ in an encounter in 1992, the police even handed over the ‘remains’ of his cremated body to his kin. His brother Dalbir Singh told Outlook: "In 1995, we came to know that he was alive and advised him to go to the court to challenge his ‘death’." Harpreet petitioned the Punjab and Haryana High Court with his claim of being alive and the court directed the police to enquire into his ‘killing’.

But Harpreet is once again on the run. He fears police harassment, he told this correspondent from his place of hiding. Says his advocate Ranjan Lakhanpal: "The police have charged him in many false cases, including murder, to get back at him for exposing them." Driven to despair, Harpreet says he would rather be dead. He had compiled a book of his poems called After I Died. It’s one of the few things the family keeps to remember their son by.

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Narain Chaura, a Khalistani currently on bail, says, "The movement is dead. What do they have to fear?"

Jagdish Singh Deeshe is another terrorist to have been ‘killed’ in 1993. A police officer was awarded a medal and the Rs 5 lakh award for the ‘effort’. In 2004, however, Jagdish fell into the hands of the police and was sent to jail. Twice condemned, he wrote to the President last October for action against the cop who claimed the medal and the cash prize for his ‘death’.

That many terrorists believed to have been killed in encounters are living incognito inside and outside Punjab was something diehard Khalistanis, as also human rights organisations, have known for quite some time. What is less known is how the police themselves have illegally ‘helped’ a chosen few in their rehabilitation. Sukhwinder Singh ‘Sukhi’, once an ‘area commander’ of the Khalistan Liberation Force (KLF), was declared dead in police records. But he was found living in Jalandhar under a new name—Harjit Singh Kahlon. All the cases against him have been closed as ‘untraced’, and Sukhi enjoys the patronage of none other than the DGP, Punjab Police, S.S. Virk. As for his rehabilitation package, not only does it include a tours and travel business, but also accommodation in government complexes in Jalandhar and Ludhiana.

This when former militants like him are still wanted in old cases of terrorism and have for several years remained proclaimed offenders. DGP Virk says that there are at least 300 such ‘rehabilitated’ terrorists who have been extended police help because of the assistance they have rendered in fighting terrorism. "They are the unsung heroes who deserve sympathy and gratitude," he says. So what if there is no legal provision to rehabilitate those wanted in serious crimes.

Sarabjit Singh, who was DGP in Punjab police from 1999 to 2000, is livid. Talking to Outlook, he said, "The DGP can exercise considerable discretion while recruiting policemen and can relax physical criteria in deserving cases. But the discretion does not extend to waiving the police verification of candidates or recruiting them under false names. Clearly verification of these people was either not done or was fabricated." Besides, he points out, "How can you exonerate these people of the crimes committed by them? The unwritten rule was that terrorists-turned-police informers were to be dealt with leniently. Some, who were not killers, were taken into the police as spos. If their conduct was good, they were inducted as constables but certainly not without proper verification."

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Kewal Singh of the Khalistan Commando Force is a cop in Jalandhar now. His family doesn’t discuss his past.

Outlook visited one such constable at House No. F25 in Chhoti Baradari in Jalandhar. Once the dreaded terrorist Kewal Singh of the KCF, he today wears the respectable veneer of constable Satnam Singh. His wife Manjit Kaur refused to answer any queries except to say that her husband is in the police, but his neighbours did say that Satnam and Sukhi were in touch with each other. Sukhi, in fact, was staying in the same colony till a couple of years ago. He has since shifted to a bigger house in a civilian locality.

Other Sukhi associates have also had it good. Balkar Singh (Bittu) and Nimma John have been recruited into the police. Nimma now works in the intelligence wing of Ludhiana police and goes by the name of Nirmaljit Singh. Tinu Bajwa alias Satbir Singh is another former terrorist who once operated with Sukhi but who now lives in a police colony in Ludhiana.

Ever since his cover was blown, Sukhi is being closely guarded by the police. When Outlook interviewed him in a Chandigarh market, he was accompanied by an armed escort. Asked about it, he says he and his ilk need protection from Khalistanis who may still be active. But, as Narain Singh Chaura, a Khalistani currently out on bail, says, "The movement is dead. All its protagonists are toothless. Daljit Bittu is the most dreaded of the former terrorists and Sukhi attended his wedding last year. So, what does he have to fear?"

With dead terrorists tumbling out of police cupboards alive, the obvious question is: whose bodies were shown as dead? The Khalsa Action Committee (KAC), a human rights organisation, had compiled a list of 1,838 bodies illegally cremated by the Punjab police during the heyday of terrorism. And activists see a possible link between this list of the missing and the ‘dead’ terrorists.

Meanwhile, for those stuck between death and life, the courts are the only recourse. They are seeking protection from the Punjab and Haryana High Court "as they might be eliminated by the police anytime to protect themselves". There would be no escaping this death.

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2 hours ago, MisterrSingh said:

So what's the assessment of this? Were these guys GOI plants designed to subvert the movement, or were they believers who were bribed to betray their ideals?

I'm guessing a bit of both really. After analysing research from books, articles and statements. My assessment is that there was alot of players from different religious and political groups with their own agenda's.

Some where already trained up Indian military R&AW agents whose mission was to spread terror within the Sikh and Hindu communities  in indian punjab and some of the agents were trained to carry out attacks in pakistan in late 80s. People like the now dead sarabjit singh (a R&AW agent hindu from haryana who pretended to be a sikh separatist crossed the border and did attacks in lahore in late 80s,  was eventually caught by pakistani authorities and imprisoned). I'm guessing they wanted intelligence on what pakistani ISI was up to. So having the fake khalistani's was one way of doing that getting important intelligence, disrupting and subverting the movement for Punjab's independence. We may recall how Benizair Bhutto was forced to sign an truce agreement with Rajiv gandhi to give up names and safe sanctuary of khalistani's in pakistan after these incidents. This is how arms shipping from pakistan to indian punjab gradually stopped.

You had hindu punjabi extremist's who were trained by indian military dressed up to dress as Sikh separatists and did the bidding of the Indian govt terrorizing punjab and blaming it on Sikhs. There's a magazine article i read few years ago which gave away how even to this day even though on of them was a brahmin hindu he kept their dastaar and long beard because it suited him. Hindu terrorist groups like shiv sena punjab among others. Alot of people dont know their role in defaming Sikh separatists and their part in terrorist attacks in punjab. People tend to think they are a harmless group of baffons or loud mouth hindu extremists. But they are still part of the same indian security establishment who try to goad, bait and incite and criminalise Sikhs in order to defame any movement for Sikh autonomy or Independence.

You had black cat indian punjab police terrorist gangs designed by avjit doval and KPS Gill creating criminal gangs like alam sena, virk sena, saini sena, etc who went around murdering and looting punjabi's pretending to be Sikh separatists. You also had genuine kharku separatists who later were caught and blackmailed to fight for indian state in-order not to have themselves and their family massacred or had naturally given up the fight to live quite life. Alot of this group of ghost indian agents are probably ones listed in the outlook magazine article who pretend to be killed in a encounter, changed their names and identities. The divide and rule policies making kharku' groups suspect, confuse, fight each and kill other rather than the indian state was probably the aim of the whole strategy. Just as they are now doing in kashmir hence why the kashmiri armed movement for independence will never work. The indian military establishment is far more ruthless and devious in a covert way than the general public think.

 

 

 

 

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46 minutes ago, genie said:

The indian military establishment is far more ruthless and devious in a covert way than the general public think.

That's something I was guilty of underestimating regarding the tenacity of the Indian forces and the brains behind their operations. The more you read into it, the more you realise they are very adept at veiling their actions in that typically rowdy, unsophisticated manner characteristic of third world countries, when they're actually rather cunning and smart in their planning and execution. 

Going back to my original point, i.e. was it double agents or Sikh sellouts that put paid to the movement, if all it takes is a hefty financial inducement to turn rat, that's something that's very difficult to account for.

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3 hours ago, MisterrSingh said:

That's something I was guilty of underestimating regarding the tenacity of the Indian forces and the brains behind their operations. The more you read into it, the more you realise they are very adept at veiling their actions in that typically rowdy, unsophisticated manner characteristic of third world countries, when they're actually rather cunning and smart in their planning and execution. 

Going back to my original point, i.e. was it double agents or Sikh sellouts that put paid to the movement, if all it takes is a hefty financial inducement to turn rat, that's something that's very difficult to account for.

Bro the whole Sikh kaum been fooled over the years not thinking how far that deep rabbit hole goes. Certain jathabandi's and people within them have been covertly working with the Indian state either for a number of reasons most of them which are monetary gain or political asylum.

if the Indian establishment could develop and test the hydrogen bomb under the noses of the west and put probes on moon and mars. Then creating elaborate anti-sikh terrorist schemes to attack, confuse and hoodwink Sikhs and their own general low IQ public of india with the huge extent of their power and influence is small fry.

And to top it off everything is done with and without the knowledge and collusion of certain global intelligence security agencies. No government will out the war crimes of other governments intelligence agencies unless its a clear cut long term geo-political enemy and there's no economic benefit from them. So only pakistan is willing to out india's war crimes against Sikhs and kashmiris but it has hardly any credibility because its own spy agency is an overt jihad islamic terrorist funder and supporter in afghanistan and kashmir.

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16 hours ago, genie said:

Bro the whole Sikh kaum been fooled over the years not thinking how far that deep rabbit hole goes. Certain jathabandi's and people within them have been covertly working with the Indian state either for a number of reasons most of them which are monetary gain or political asylum.

if the Indian establishment could develop and test the hydrogen bomb under the noses of the west and put probes on moon and mars. Then creating elaborate anti-sikh terrorist schemes to attack, confuse and hoodwink Sikhs and their own general low IQ public of india with the huge extent of their power and influence is small fry.

And to top it off everything is done with and without the knowledge and collusion of certain global intelligence security agencies. No government will out the war crimes of other governments intelligence agencies unless its a clear cut long term geo-political enemy and there's no economic benefit from them. So only pakistan is willing to out india's war crimes against Sikhs and kashmiris but it has hardly any credibility because its own spy agency is an overt jihad islamic terrorist funder and supporter in afghanistan and kashmir.

We (and I include myself in this) sit here in the West with our ideas and opinions on Sikh autonomy and its storied history, and I think we labour under many delusions resulting from a rose-tinted morality concerning the way things should be done. 

The reality seems to be a lot less cut-and-dry than we're lead to believe. I have no doubt the people that we'd consider to be our allies would not hesitate in selling us out and having us killed if it meant their own enrichment or for the benefit of their own survival. I'm beginning to discard the romantic notions of a united brotherhood with everyone pulling in the same direction to achieve the same goal. The idealism we possess is that typical NRI "innocence" that our Indian-resident brethren hold in such disdain. 

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