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| General Labh Singh | |
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| Nickname(s) | Sukha Sipahi |
| Allegiance | Khalistan Commando Force |
| Years of service | 1984 - 1988 |
| Rank | General (self-appointed) |
| Battles / wars | Operation Blue Star, Khalistan movement (East Template:Lang-pa).
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Sukhdev Singh (1952 - July 12, 1988), known as Labh Singh, Sukha Sipahi (truthful soldier), and General Labh Singh, was a former Punjab police officer who took command of the Khalistan Commando Force after its first leader, Manbir Singh Chaheru, was arrested in 1986. He was an associate of Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale and he had fought against Indian army during Operation Bluestar. He was credited for re-structuring Khalistan Commando Force with a fluid hierarchy. He was involved in the attack on the Director-General of the Punjab Police Julio Francis Ribeiro. He also took part in the Indian history's biggest bank robbery of Rs. 5.70 crore ($4.5 million) from Punjab National Bank, Miller Gunj branch, Ludhiana to finance violent campaign for a separate Sikh state of Khalistan..
Early life
Labh Singh's original name was Sukhdev Singh and he was also known as Sukha Sipahi. He was born in 1952 to Mr. Puran Singh and Mrs. Kulwant Kaur in the village of Panjwar, District Amritsar, Punjab, India. He has one older brother, named Daljeet Singh. He had his education at Baba Buddha Sahib college. In 1980, he married Davinder Kaur according to Sikh rites and had two sons Rajashwar Singh and Pardeep Singh.
Twelve years in the police
After finishing his education at Baba Buddha Sahib College, Labh Singh joined the police force in 1971 and served the force until he left his job 12 years later in 1983. Even during his service years, he was into the Sikh faith. The story goes that one time, when his relatives had come to meet him at Bhikhiwind Thana, he beat up an alleged Sikh-hating Hindu police officer called Nanda.
Association with Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale
In 1983, after he met Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, he left the Punjab police and joined the Sikh militant movement. In May 1984, he, along with Gursewak Singh Babla, Gurinder Singh and Swaranjit Singh, was accused of killing Hind Samachar newspaper group editor Ramesh Chander who was an outspoken critic of Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale and who wrote that Punjab state has become a slaughterhouse. As per a phone call received at Indian news agency afterwards, “it was notified that whoever speaks or writes against Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale will be answered with bullets”. During Operation Blue Star, he fought against Indian Army along with other Sikh militants. Arrested by the army after the operation, he was sent to Jodhpur Jail where he spent two years without trial.
Association with Khalistan Commando Force
He escaped from police custody on April 25, 1986, when Sikh militant leader Manbir Singh Chaheru and his associates attacked Indian security forces that were taking him to trail in the District courts of Jalandhar, Punjab, India. He, along with Gurinder Singh and Swaranjit Singh, was to appear in court on charges of slaying Ramesh Chander, a leading Hindu newspaper editor. Militants freed all three prisoners. Four police officers were killed inside the District Court complex and two other officers were shot at the courtyard gate as the attackers fled. 16 other armed court guards cowered in fear. As per police statement, the sentries were too terrified to fire back. Attackers also took away three rifles and a submachine gun of the slain officers.
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After KCF's first commander-in-chief Manbir Singh Chaheru's arrest and alleged disappearance, Labh Singh took over the leadership of Khalistan Commando Force and re-created it with a fluid hierarchy, enabling it to accommodate any potential setbacks. He was the undisputed head of this force until his death. He appointed half a dozen Lieutenant Generals, each independent of each other, with each of them having Area Commanders. As such, the death of a Lieutenant General, for example, would result in the promotion of an Area Commander. After his death this organisation was headed by Kanwarjit Singh Sultanwind. After Kanwarjit Singh Sultanwind's death, Paramjeet Singh Panjwar became the General of his organisation.
He was involved in several police encounters including daylight attack on the Director-General of the Punjab Police Julio Francis Ribeiro on October 3, 1986 inside the headquarters of Punjab Armed Police in the city of Jalandhar, Punjab, India.
Along with Harjinder Singh Jinda, Sukhdev Singh Sukha and other militants of the Khalistan Commando Force, he also took part in the daylight robbery of the Punjab National Bank, Miller Gunj branch, Ludhiana in which more than Rs 5.70 crore (58 million rupees-$4.5 million) were looted, a part of which belonged to the Reserve Bank of India, India's central bank. Sikh militants often used bank robberies to finance their violent campaign against the Indian government..
Death and afterward
Labh Singh was killed in an encounter with the Punjab Police near Tanda, Hoshiarpur, Punjab, India.
At that time, he was wanted in relation to the murder of a dozen policemen, Ramesh Chander (a newspaper editor), an attempt on the former Punjab Police Chief Julio Francis Ribeiro and a major Bank heist in Ludhiana, of which he was the mastermind.
Amritsar Police Superintendent Suresh Arora said "We have broken the back of the KCF. Sukhdev Singh was the most dreaded of the terrorists."
See also
Footnotes
- Fighting for Faith and Nation By Cynthia Keppley Mahmood - Page 155
- "India's most-wanted terrorist captured". New Straits Times Foreign News Service. August 11, 1986. Retrieved 2009-06-26.
- http://ir.lib.sfu.ca/retrieve/726/etd1604.pdf
- Encyclopedia of modern worldwide extremists and extremist groups by Stephen E. Atkins
- Fighting for faith and nation By Cynthia Keppley Mahmood
- http://www.tribuneindia.com/2008/20081010/punjab1.htm#11
- ^ http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/58240583.html?dids=58240583:58240583&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=Feb+13%2C+1987&author=&pub=Los+Angeles+Times+(pre-1997+Fulltext)&desc=Sikh+Separatists+Masquerade+as+Police+to+Stage+India's+Biggest+Bank+Robbery&pqatl=google
- http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-3810376.html
- Terrorism & It's Effects By Juan Sanchez, various
- Genesis of terrorism By Satyapal Dang
- ^ Walia, Varinder (March 8, 2001). "Kin of slain Babbar Khalsa chief shift abroad". The Tribune (Tribune News Service). Retrieved 2009-06-26.
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- The Times of India, Aug 27, 2004
- Wilmington Morning Star, Apr 6, 1986
- Chicago Tribune, May 13, 1984
- Wilmington Morning Star, May 13, 1984
- Fighting for faith and nation By Cynthia Keppley Mahmood
- ^ "Top Sikh extremist shot dead by Indian police". New Straits Times. 13 July 1988. Retrieved 2009-06-25.
- http://books.google.com/books?id=8QufTc6fAocC&pg=PA168&dq=general+labh+singh+fighting+for+faith+and+nation&lr=&num=100&ei=upDaSOfhJKDitQPG2-XeDg&sig=ACfU3U2YnlXSW49kQTTEBo8RDhPhpDFIfQ
- Wilmington Morning Star, Apr 6, 1986 Sikhs kill 6 on courthouse steps
- The Courier - Apr 6, 1986
- Los Angeles Times - Apr 6, 1986
- Chicago Tribune, Apr 5, 1986
- The Free-Lance Star - Apr 5, 1986
- Ludington Daily News - Apr 4, 1986
- Fighting for Faith and Nation by By Cynthia Keppley Mahmood - Page 155
- 'Encyclopedia of modern worldwide extremists and extremist groups' by Stephen E. Atkins
- http://books.google.com/books?id=AK6QA_WotRYC&pg=PT161&dq=general+labh+singh&ei=Rj83Sq-cM5DOlQSi97GnAQ
- http://www.tribuneindia.com/2002/20020125/punjab1.htm
- http://www.canada.com/windsorstar/news/story.html?id=4e9019ee-c9cd-4459-8a1f-e4f08238125e
- http://www.sikhtimes.com/sikhism_timeline.html
- http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-3810376.html
- Gill, K.P.S. (May 1999). "Endgame In Punjab: 1988-1993". Faultlines. 1 (1). page 29: Institute for Conflict Management. Retrieved June 25, 2009.
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- http://books.google.com/books?id=z9GG4__JJNwC&pg=PA399&dq=general+labh+singh&ei=NUs3StXSGYSukASb1pCoAQ
References
- Mahmood, Cynthia Keppley (1997). Fighting for Faith and Nation: Dialogues with Sikh Militants (illustrated ed.). University of Pennsylvania Press. p. 314. ISBN 9780812215922.
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| Preceded byManbir Singh Chaheru | Commander-in-Chief of Khalistan Commando Force 1986 – 1988 |
Succeeded byKanwarjit Singh Sultanwind |
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