India    04-Apr-2016

Chand Kaur, the 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.

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India    22-Apr-2016

Gurdeep Singh Khera, who is serving a life sentence in two different terror cases, was released on parole of 42 days. Khera is currently lodged in Central Jail in Amritsar (Punjab) where he was transferred from Gulbarga Jail of Karnataka in June 2015 on "humanitarian grounds". He was booked under the Militant and Disruptive Activities (TADA) Prevention Act and later sentenced to life imprisonment in two different cases registered in 1996 in New Delhi and Karnataka.

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India    22-Apr-2016

The Punjab Government released the 1993 Delhi blast convict, Devinder Pal Singh Bhullar, on a 21-day parole. He was released barely 24 hours after another terror convict, Gurdeep Singh Khera, walked out on of the same jail on parole. Bhullar's parole application said he wanted to meet his family, including his wife who is temporarily staying in Ranjit Avenue in Amritsar.

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India    23-Apr-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.

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