Gangster-Terrorism linked Targeted Killings and Attempted Targeted Killings in Punjab since 2016

Year	Date	Incidents
2016	January 18, 2016	RSS leader Naresh Kumar was injured when two unidentified assailants fired upon him in the wee hours at Shaheedi Park in Kidwai Nagar in Ludhiana District.
	February 3, 2016	Former Shiv Sena youth wing leader, Amit Arora was injured as two unidentified assailants shot at him near Jyoti Motor Basti Jodhewal in Ludhiana District.
	April 4, 2016	Chand Kaur, wife of the late Satguru Jagjit Singh, the former head of the Namdhari sect, was shot dead by two unidentified assailants at the Bhaini Sahib Gurdwara complex in Ludhiana District.
	April 23, 2016	Shiv Sena’s labour wing chief in Punjab, Durga Prasad Gupta, was shot dead by two unidentified assailants near Lalheri Chowk in Khanna in Ludhiana District.
	August 6, 2016	Senior RSS leader, Brigadier (Retired) Jagdish Gagneja, was shot at by two unidentified assailants when he was shopping with his wife at a market in Jalandhar. He succumbed to injuries on September 21, 2016.
2017	January 15, 2017	Amit Sharma, the ‘Zila Pracharak (District President)’ of the Hindu religious organization, Sri Hindu Takht, was shot dead by two unidentified assailants near Guru Nanak Stadium in Ludhiana District.
	February 25, 2017	Two Dera Sacha Sauda followers, Satpal Sharma and his son Ramesh Kumar, were shot dead by two unidentified assailants at their canteen at Naam Charcha Ghar, a meeting centre for the Dera followers, in Jagera village in Khanna in Ludhiana District.
	July 15, 2017	The pastor of a local church, Sultan Masih, was shot dead by two unidentified assailants outside the church in Peerubanda Mohalla in Ludhiana District.
	October 17, 2017	Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) leader Ravinder Gosain was shot dead by two unidentified assailants near his house in Mohalla Gagandeep Colony in Ludhiana District.
	October 30, 2017	The Hindu Sangarsh Sena ‘district chief’, Vipan Sharma, was shot dead by four unidentified assailants in the Bharat Nagar locality along the Amritsar-Batala Road in Amritsar.
2018	September 25, 2018	In an attempt to kill, five unidentified assailants on September 25 attacked Nishant Sharma— ‘President’ of Right-Wing outfit Shiv Sena Hind who was sentenced to four years in prison in a fraud case in Ropar sub-jail in Punjab. Nishant was stabbed in the early hours of September 25 after attackers broke the lock of his barrack. Nishant has been on hit-list of Khalistan sympathisers for his speeches against Sikh radicals and attacking Jagtar Singh Hawara—assassin of former Punjab’s Chief Minister Beant Singh.

2020	February 10, 2020	Honey Mahajan, the youth wing president of Shiv Sena (Hindustan), right wing Hindu nationalist party, Punjab unit, was shot at and injured by unidentified assailants in Gurdaspur.
	February 22, 2020	Unidentified assailants opened fire outside the Shiv Sena office on Chandigarh Road in Sector 39, Ludhiana. Shiv Sena (Hindustan) president Amit Arora and the party's state youth president Mani Sheera were sitting inside the office.
	March 9, 2020	A Shiv Sena leader in Punjab, Mahant Kashmir Giri, escaped unhurt after two unidentified motorcycle-borne assailants opened fire at him at his house in Khanna in Ludhiana District.
	October 16, 2020	Anti-Khalistan activist Balwinder Singh Sandhu, who had fought against terrorism in Punjab for years, was shot dead by unidentified assailants at his native Bhikhiwind village in Tarn Taran District.
	November 20, 2020	Two unidentified persons shot dead a prominent dera follower, Manohar Lal, who is a member of 25 members committee of Dera Sacha Sauda and is father of Jatinderbir Singh Jimmy, who is an accused in a sacrilege incident, near the bus stand at Bhagta Bhaika in Bathinda in Bathinda District.

2022	May 29, 2022	Punjabi singer and Congress leader Sidhu Moose Wala was shot dead by unidentified assailants in his car in Jawaharke village of Mansa. According to police, Lawrence Bishnoi's gang initially asserted responsibility for the murder through an unverified Facebook post, a claim Bishnoi refuted. However, Punjab Police had detained him, and officials deemed him the "mastermind" behind the murder.
	November 4, 2022	The head of Punjab-based right-wing outfit called Shiv Sena (Taksali), Sudhir Suri was shot dead by a local shopkeeper in the middle of a public protest in Amritsar. According to police, Suri was staging a protest outside a temple in Amritsar’s Kashmir Avenue when he was shot at five times by Sandeep Singh alias Sunny, who ran a garment shop outside the same temple. Later, Singh was arrested by the police.
	November 10, 2022	Unidentified gunmen killed Dera Sacha Sauda follower Pardeep Singh at Kot Kapura in Faridkot District in a shootout. Pardeep Singh was facing the case of sacrilege in the incident of theft of the Bir of Guru Granth Sahib from Burj Jawahar Singh Wala village on June 1, 2015, and was out on bail. The five persons on two bikes are learnt to have fired indiscriminately when Pardeep was opening his milk dairy at Hari Nau Singh Road in Kot Kapura. Pardeep’s gunman and another person sustained injuries in the incident. Meanwhile. hours later, in an alleged Facebook post, gangster Goldy Brar said, " I, Goldy Brar from Lawrence Bishnoi gang, takes the responsibility of murder of 2015 Bargari Beadbi (sacrilege) case."
2023	January 4, 2023	An electrician, identified as Paramjit Singh (45) was shot dead by two armed persons at his house in Bardeke village near Jagraon in Ludhiana district. According to reports, the assailants fired four bullets, killing him on the spot. Meanwhile, after the incident, a Facebook post by Jaspreet Singh, who claimed to be Canada-based fugitive gangster Arsh Dalla, took the responsibility for the murder. In the post, he said Paramjit had been murdered as he had “mentally harassed” a person at Minian village due to which he had “committed suicide”. “.. My younger brother Dilpreet Dhaliwal of Minian village was harassed and he died by suicide because of this man.. so I got him killed to take revenge of my brother’s killing…,” said the post, while tagging accounts of other gangster groups, including Jaipal Bhullar-Jassi gang and Davinder Bambiha gang.
	May 8, 2023	Dreaded gangster, Sukhpreet Singh alias Sukha Barewalia, was shot dead by unidentified assailants in Ludhiana in Ludhiana district on May 8. The gangster was ambushed by three assailants who were already waiting for him in Joginder Nagar of Haibowal. The shooters opened fire on him and fled the scene. Barewalia was wanted in several cases.
	May 24, 2023	A gangster, identified as Jarnail Singh was shot dead by four armed assailants in broad daylight at Sathiala village in Beas sub-division, Amritsar district on May 24. Jarnail was out on bail at the time of the incident. The police suspect gang rivalry as possible motives for the killing. A Facebook post from gangster Davinder Bambiha on May 25 claimed responsibility for the killing of gangster Jarnail Singh in Amritsar. The post alleges Jarnail's links to other gangsters and states that he was not part of the Gopi Ghanshampuria gang.
	July 16, 2023	Santokh Singh, the father of gangster Sukhdev Singh, who is a member of the Bambiha gang was shot dead by four unidentified assailants in his house in Moga district on July 16. According to police, in a suspected case of inter-gang rivalry, a group of assailants barged into a history-sheeter’s house in Moga in broad daylight and opened fire at his father.
	September 18, 2023	A local Congress party leader, Baljinder Singh Balli, was shot dead by two unidentified assailants at his residence in Dala village in Moga district. Baljinder Singh was the Congress party’s Ajitgarh block chief, and the entire incident of the killing was captured on CCTV. Hours later, Khalistani terrorist Arshdeep Singh Gill alias Arsh Dalla, claimed responsibility for the murder on Facebook. Dalla accused Balli of ruining his future and mentioned a personal vendetta related to his mother's police custody, indicating a motive for the killing.
	October 31, 2023	Gangster Gurpreet Singh alias Laddi Shooter, was shot dead by unidentified assailants near a railway crossing in Ferozepur district. Gurpreet was a member of the Shishu gang and had been involved in a shooting incident in April 2022, leading to his arrest along with the gang leader. Despite being on parole, he was killed, and the police are currently investigating the case, reviewing CCTV footage and collecting evidence to apprehend the assailants.
2024	January 14, 2024	Awan Kumar Khullar alias Sonu Cheema, the sarpanch (head of the Panchayat, village level local self-Government institution) of Adda Chabal village, was shot dead by two unidentified assailants in broad daylight in Tarn Taran district. According to police, German-based gangster Amritpal Singh Bath, who originally hails from Mianpur, was behind the killing. Police revealed that Amritpal Singh had been booked under 18 criminal cases of killing, attempt to murder and other heinous crimes.
	February 27, 2024	A gangster identified as Suraj Parkash alias Babbu was killed and another one, identified as Harpreet injured in a gang war on the Hambran road in Ludhiana in the intervening night of February 26 and 27. According to police, Persons belonging to both groups were members of the Sukha Badewalia gang in the past.
	March 4, 2024	A Jammu-based gangster, identified as Rajesh Dogra alias Mohan Chir, was shot dead by four unidentified assailants outside a shopping mall in Sector 67 in Mohali, Sahibzada Ajit Singh (SAS) Nagar district in Punjab. According to the police, the shooting was the result of a fallout from a gang war.
	April 4, 2024	Rattandeep Singh, a former Khalistani militant associated with the Bhindranwale Tiger Force of Khalistan (BTFK), was shot dead by two unidentified bike-borne assailants in Balachaur, Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar district, Punjab, on April 4. Having been a hardcore militant involved in various terror activities, including a bomb blast in Chandigarh in 1999, Rattandeep was arrested in 2014 after evading authorities for years and was released in 2019. His nephew, who was in the car with him, reported that they were meeting unidentified persons when the assailants opened fire. Soon after the incident, gangster Gopi Nawanshahria took to social media to claim responsibility for the killing. “Rattandeep was acting as a police tout and has committed a fraud with innocent youngsters,” the gangster posted on Facebook.
	April 8, 2024	A youth from Dera Baba Nanak town in Gurdaspur district, identified as Sandeep Singh alias Shera was found murdered with sharp weapons on April 8 night. Shera was facing several criminal cases. Soon after the incident, notorious gangster Happy Pachhia claimed in a “Facebook post” that he murdered Sandeep Singh. Happy wrote in his alleged Facebook post that they murdered a police informer. Sandeep was working for the National Investigation Agency (NIA) and the police.
	April 13, 2024	The President of Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) in Nangal town of Rupnagar district of Punjab, Vikas Prabhakar alias Vikas Bagga, was shot dead by two unidentified assailants in his confectionery shop on April 13 evening. Punjab Police on April 16 solved the murder case by arresting two accused identified as Mandeep Kumar alias Mangi and Surinder Kumar alias Rikka and seized two weapons of 32 bore Pistols, 16 live cartridges, one empty used cartridge and a TVS Jupiter scooty used in the crime from their possession, in Rupnagar. The Police also uncovered the suspects’ involvement in a terror module supported by Pakistan-based masterminds. The investigation further revealed that the murder was planned with involvement foreign based entities based in Pakistan and Portugal.