Beant Singh

Beant Singh, son of Suchcha Singh, a resident of Maloa ( District Ropar), along with Satwant Singh assassinated Indira Gandhi, the Indian Prime Minister.

On 1 June 1984 on the orders of Indira Gandhi, the Indian Army attacked the Harmandir Sahib complex, in an attempt to destroy the holiest Sikh shrine, an operation called Operation Blue Star. These events caused outrage amongst the Sikh community, which claimed that the attacks were pre-planned and that anti-Sikh violence which followed was government orchestrated. Beant Singh and Satwant Singh were Sikh bodyguards of Indira Gandhi, yet on 31 October 1984 they assassinated her in her garden.

Beant Singh was killed by gunfire at the scene of the assassination. Satwant Singh was arrested and later sentenced to death, along with Kehar Singh.

Coincidently, Beant Singh is also the name of a former Chief Minister, of an Indian State of Punjab, who was assassinated.