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'''Bhai Navneet Singh Ji Khadian''' was born in the year 1970, in a middle class family. At a very young age he showed his yearning to learn about Sikhi and would often go to the local Gurdwara by himself and carry out seva and listen to Katha (discourse) and Kirtan.  
'''Navneet Singh Khadian''' alias Navneet Singh Kadian alias Navneet Singh Quadian @ Pal was a member of the Sikh Guerrilla group [[Khalistan Liberation Force]]. He was born in 1970 to a middle-class family. He joined the Guru Nanak Dev Engineering College, [[Bidar]] in the South Indian state of Karnataka to further his studies.  


After completing studies at his local school he  attended Bidar Engineering College in the state of Karnataka, South India. It was 1985 one year after the blood letting at the Golden Temple, a bungled attempt on the part of the Indian Army, to wrest control of the Temple compound from Jarnail Singh Bindranwale - now [[Sant Jarnail Singh Bindranwale]] and a small army of well armed and well trained sympathsizers.
During Anti-Sikh Riots of Bidar, happened on September 14th - 16th 1988, [[Hindu]] mobs attacked the Sikh students and other Sikh civilians, Sikh properties and killed atleast 6 Sikh students, injured about 100 and burnt several Sikh properties<ref>http://209.85.173.104/search?q=cache:-I-093upUvsJ:www.altlawforum.org/Resources/COMMUNALISM/Festival%2520occasion%2520as%2520moment%2520for%2520riot.doc+bidar+sikh+riot+1988&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=3&gl=us</ref><ref>https://www.ihro.in/?q=book/print/129</ref><ref>http://www.altlawforum.org/Resources/COMMUNALISM/communal%20incidents%20in%20karnataka/view?searchterm=bidar </ref> <ref>www.altlawforum.org/Resources/COMMUNALISM/for%20uplode.doc</ref>. As per [https://www.ihro.in/?q=node/130 Human Rights Watchdog], The communal chauvinists ran amuck and innocent students and persons belonging to the Sikh community were subjected to untold miseries during these riots. Affected by this incident, he went back to Punjab and enrolled at the Guru Nanak Dev Engineering College, Ludhiana, Punjab, India.  This was the period when thousands of Khalistan suspects were being killed in staged shootouts and thousands of bodies were being cremated/disposed without proper identification or post-mortems by Government Security Forces in Punjab. <ref> http://news.sbs.com.au/dateline/india__who_killed_the_sikhs_130052</ref><ref> http://www.hinduonnet.com/2005/09/09/stories/2005090903181100.htm</ref><ref> http://www.indiatogether.org/2003/jun/hrt-missing.htm</ref><ref> http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?lang=e&id=F072BE8A8A0506C08025690000692C86</ref>. Several number of Sikh women were reportedly being gang-raped and molested by Indian security forces during house to house searches. Villagers properties were being looted and ransacking of the entire villages was happening<ref>https://www.ihro.in/?q=node/124</ref><ref>http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/asset/ASA20/002/2003/en/uvSEW2lMY-gJ</ref>.  


The assasination  of the Indira Ghandi by two of her trusted bodyguards (both Sikhs who were intent on righting the affront and sacriledge done to the Harmandar and the severe damage to the Akaal Takhat and the Sikh community at large) kindled a malestrom of Hindu revenge. It was as if it was 1947 again, only this time it wasn't Hindus and Sikhs vs. the Muslims, but the Radical Hindutva bosses who whipped  Hindu mobs into a frenzy of robbery, rape and murder. Even tax records were used to locate Sikhs in their homes as many Gurdwaras and Sikh businesses were put to the torch.
He joined the [[Khalistan Liberation Force]] and took part in several high profile guerrilla attacks on Anti-Khalistan/Pro-Indian political and security officials. As per [http://www.indlii.org/JudgementDetail.aspx?JudgementID=1575 the records of Designated Court-I, New Delhi], in Sessions Case No.4 of 2000, Navneet Singh was wanted in Bomb Blast case happened in the year 1991 to kill Mr. Sumedh Saini, Senior Superintendent of Police [[Chandigarh]] where Mr. Saini,  13 other officers from the Punjab Police and the Central Reserve Police Force were injured<ref> http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=251982</ref> ''AND'' he had also planned and executed high profile bomb attack on President of Indian Youth Congress (I), Manjinder Singh Bitta in New Delhi on September 11th 1993. As per these court records, On 2nd September, 1993, Navneet Kadian alongwith Kuldeep Keepa conducted the reccee of the office of MS Bitta at 5, Rai Sina Road, New Delhi. They made two failed attempts on 6th and 9th of september, 1993. On 6th September, 1993, their Bomb explosion mechanism did not work and they could not trigger the blast. On 9th September, 1993, MS Bitta did not come to the office. Finally they triggered the blast using 40 Kg of RDX on September 11th, 1993. The other high profile militants involved in this attack were [[Khalistan Liberation Force]] chief, Kuldeep Singh Keepa Shekhupura, Pawan Kumar @ Chajju, Er. Devenderpal Singh Bhullar @ Deepak (who was lateron extradited to India from West Germany and who is currently on a death row in Tihar Jail, Delhi), Mr Charni, Harnaik Singh @ Chotu, Mr. Daya Singh Lahoria and Mr. Sukha @ Sangatpuria.


The chance of violence (Karnataka was far to the South of the pogroms' epicenters in the North) was probably not even on the minds of the industrious Students who were hard at work, seeking to earn a better life and a better standard of living for their 'extended families', a better life that an engineering degree would surely bring.
Navneet Singh’s associates were also involved in the abduction of Romanian diplomat Liviu Radu in the year 1992<ref> http://www.thehindu.com/fline/fl1521/15210450.htm</ref>


For ten of his fellow students, all of their  dreams and aspirations, their hard work, the efforts and sacrifices that their parents had gladly born, just to see their sons and daughters - live the dreams that - they could only dream, came to an end as they lay dead at the hands of another Hindu Mob.  
Navneet Singh took over the command of [[Khalistan Liberation Force]] after the death of Mr. Kuldeep Singh Keepa Shekhupura. Navneet Singh alongwith Daya Singh Lahoria, Mr. Lahoria’s wife Mrs. Suman Sood @ Kanwaljeet Kaur and Harnek Singh were involved in the kidnapping of Congress(I) leader Ram Niwas Mirdha's son Rajinder Mirdha in 1995 to force Indian Government to release his associate Er. Devenderpal Singh Bhullar @ Deepak from its custody. Mr Mirdha was kidnapped from a residential colony on February 17, 1995<ref> http://www.thehindu.com/fline/fl1521/15210450.htm</ref><ref>http://www.tribuneindia.com/2004/20041022/nation.htm#10</ref>
Navneet was killed in a shootout with Police on 25th February, 1994 when Police attacked a newly built house on the outskirts of Jaipur, [[Rajasthan]] to free-up Mr. Rajendra Mirdha from [[Khalistan Liberation Force]]’s custody<ref> http://www.thehindu.com/fline/fl1521/15210450.htm</ref>However Mr. Lahoriya, his wife, and another Militant Harnek Singh managed to fled from the scene<ref>http://www.tribuneindia.com/2004/20041022/nation.htm#10</ref><ref>http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/2021510.cms</ref><ref>http://www.rediff.com/news/2000/oct/23bora.htm</ref>.
Mr Lahoria became chief of [[Khalistan Liberation Force]] after Mr. Navneet’s death. He got was arrested in 1995 from Miniapples Airport, Minnesota, USA and extradited to India where he was awarded life imprisonment by Judge Judge B.L. Lamnor, Jaipur on October 21 2004 which he is presently serving in High Security jail, [[Nabha]], [[Punjab]], [[India]]<ref>http://www.tribuneindia.com/2004/20041022/nation.htm#10</ref><ref>http://www.tribuneindia.com/2007/20070810/cth2.htm#11</ref>


A year later (even to this day) the men, despite being well known, behind the mass killings of Sikhs after Indira Ghandi's assasination, have gone unpunished. The Sikh population of Karnataka  tried its best to make sure that this massacre would not go unpunished as well. They fought hard to see the guilty prosecuted. In the end, it seemed  as if India had one law for its minorities and another for its majority. The cases were never brought to trial.
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This episode greatly effected Bhai Navneet Singh. He returned to the Punjab and enrolled at Guru Nanak Dev Engineering College, Ludhiana. Here he witnessed a living hell with daily killings of young Sikhs. He heard of torture, murder, of dissappearances and the ever present rumours of discrimination in the the job market which saw jobs being metted out along social and religious grounds. All of this was to turn his life in a totally different direction.
 
In the end, as a well educated and pious Gursikh Bhai Sahib decided to take the paath of spiritual inspiration, a path taken from Sikh history — the time honoured path of a saint-soldier. He joined the Sikh Guerrilla group Khalistan Liberation Force (K.L.F.) under the command of Bhai Gurjant Singh Ji Budhsingwala. His courage, dedication, resourcefulness and leadership qualities soon won him great admiration across the Sikh community.
 
After the martyrdom of Bhai Kuldeep Singh Keepa Shekhupua, Bhai Sahib took overall command of the K.L.F. On the night of 25th February 1994, Bhai Sahib was to gain martyrdom at Jaipur, Rajasthan.

Revision as of 23:44, 27 April 2008

Navneet Singh Khadian alias Navneet Singh Kadian alias Navneet Singh Quadian @ Pal was a member of the Sikh Guerrilla group Khalistan Liberation Force. He was born in 1970 to a middle-class family. He joined the Guru Nanak Dev Engineering College, Bidar in the South Indian state of Karnataka to further his studies.

During Anti-Sikh Riots of Bidar, happened on September 14th - 16th 1988, Hindu mobs attacked the Sikh students and other Sikh civilians, Sikh properties and killed atleast 6 Sikh students, injured about 100 and burnt several Sikh properties[1][2][3] [4]. As per Human Rights Watchdog, The communal chauvinists ran amuck and innocent students and persons belonging to the Sikh community were subjected to untold miseries during these riots. Affected by this incident, he went back to Punjab and enrolled at the Guru Nanak Dev Engineering College, Ludhiana, Punjab, India. This was the period when thousands of Khalistan suspects were being killed in staged shootouts and thousands of bodies were being cremated/disposed without proper identification or post-mortems by Government Security Forces in Punjab. [5][6][7][8]. Several number of Sikh women were reportedly being gang-raped and molested by Indian security forces during house to house searches. Villagers properties were being looted and ransacking of the entire villages was happening[9][10].

He joined the Khalistan Liberation Force and took part in several high profile guerrilla attacks on Anti-Khalistan/Pro-Indian political and security officials. As per the records of Designated Court-I, New Delhi, in Sessions Case No.4 of 2000, Navneet Singh was wanted in Bomb Blast case happened in the year 1991 to kill Mr. Sumedh Saini, Senior Superintendent of Police Chandigarh where Mr. Saini, 13 other officers from the Punjab Police and the Central Reserve Police Force were injured[11] AND he had also planned and executed high profile bomb attack on President of Indian Youth Congress (I), Manjinder Singh Bitta in New Delhi on September 11th 1993. As per these court records, On 2nd September, 1993, Navneet Kadian alongwith Kuldeep Keepa conducted the reccee of the office of MS Bitta at 5, Rai Sina Road, New Delhi. They made two failed attempts on 6th and 9th of september, 1993. On 6th September, 1993, their Bomb explosion mechanism did not work and they could not trigger the blast. On 9th September, 1993, MS Bitta did not come to the office. Finally they triggered the blast using 40 Kg of RDX on September 11th, 1993. The other high profile militants involved in this attack were Khalistan Liberation Force chief, Kuldeep Singh Keepa Shekhupura, Pawan Kumar @ Chajju, Er. Devenderpal Singh Bhullar @ Deepak (who was lateron extradited to India from West Germany and who is currently on a death row in Tihar Jail, Delhi), Mr Charni, Harnaik Singh @ Chotu, Mr. Daya Singh Lahoria and Mr. Sukha @ Sangatpuria.

Navneet Singh’s associates were also involved in the abduction of Romanian diplomat Liviu Radu in the year 1992[12]

Navneet Singh took over the command of Khalistan Liberation Force after the death of Mr. Kuldeep Singh Keepa Shekhupura. Navneet Singh alongwith Daya Singh Lahoria, Mr. Lahoria’s wife Mrs. Suman Sood @ Kanwaljeet Kaur and Harnek Singh were involved in the kidnapping of Congress(I) leader Ram Niwas Mirdha's son Rajinder Mirdha in 1995 to force Indian Government to release his associate Er. Devenderpal Singh Bhullar @ Deepak from its custody. Mr Mirdha was kidnapped from a residential colony on February 17, 1995[13][14] Navneet was killed in a shootout with Police on 25th February, 1994 when Police attacked a newly built house on the outskirts of Jaipur, Rajasthan to free-up Mr. Rajendra Mirdha from Khalistan Liberation Force’s custody[15]However Mr. Lahoriya, his wife, and another Militant Harnek Singh managed to fled from the scene[16][17][18]. Mr Lahoria became chief of Khalistan Liberation Force after Mr. Navneet’s death. He got was arrested in 1995 from Miniapples Airport, Minnesota, USA and extradited to India where he was awarded life imprisonment by Judge Judge B.L. Lamnor, Jaipur on October 21 2004 which he is presently serving in High Security jail, Nabha, Punjab, India[19][20]

References

  1. ^ http://209.85.173.104/search?q=cache:-I-093upUvsJ:www.altlawforum.org/Resources/COMMUNALISM/Festival%2520occasion%2520as%2520moment%2520for%2520riot.doc+bidar+sikh+riot+1988&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=3&gl=us
  2. ^ https://www.ihro.in/?q=book/print/129
  3. ^ http://www.altlawforum.org/Resources/COMMUNALISM/communal%20incidents%20in%20karnataka/view?searchterm=bidar
  4. ^ www.altlawforum.org/Resources/COMMUNALISM/for%20uplode.doc
  5. ^ http://news.sbs.com.au/dateline/india__who_killed_the_sikhs_130052
  6. ^ http://www.hinduonnet.com/2005/09/09/stories/2005090903181100.htm
  7. ^ http://www.indiatogether.org/2003/jun/hrt-missing.htm
  8. ^ http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?lang=e&id=F072BE8A8A0506C08025690000692C86
  9. ^ https://www.ihro.in/?q=node/124
  10. ^ http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/asset/ASA20/002/2003/en/uvSEW2lMY-gJ
  11. ^ http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=251982
  12. ^ http://www.thehindu.com/fline/fl1521/15210450.htm
  13. ^ http://www.thehindu.com/fline/fl1521/15210450.htm
  14. ^ http://www.tribuneindia.com/2004/20041022/nation.htm#10
  15. ^ http://www.thehindu.com/fline/fl1521/15210450.htm
  16. ^ http://www.tribuneindia.com/2004/20041022/nation.htm#10
  17. ^ http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/2021510.cms
  18. ^ http://www.rediff.com/news/2000/oct/23bora.htm
  19. ^ http://www.tribuneindia.com/2004/20041022/nation.htm#10
  20. ^ http://www.tribuneindia.com/2007/20070810/cth2.htm#11
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