• On 11 November 1985, Police and
CRPF surrounded the hut where Gurbachan Singh Manochahal, head of BTFK, was staying. It is said the security forces kept their distance out of fear. Manochahal told police he needed a flashlight to open the lock of the door. Police slid a flashlight under the crack of the door. Manochahal opened the door and went charging out with his brother both holding assault rifles. The officers retreated after suffering heavy casualties. • On 14 June 1987, BTFK claimed responsibility for the killing of 12 and injuring 20 in
Delhi in a shooting. BTFK said, "'Killings squads have reached (New) Delhi and they will take revenge for the November
1984 anti-Sikh riots." Surjit Singh Penta carried out the killings. • On 30 July 1987, BTKF claimed responsibility for an attack on Hans Raj Sethi, a
BJP representative on the New Delhi City Council. He was shot dead with 6 bullets. He was considered a "father figure" for the BJP and
RSS in Delhi. They next walked up to Sudarshan Munjal, a BJP member, in his driveway and killed him. Surjit Singh Penta carried out the killings. • Sukhwinder Singh Sangha claimed responsibility for killing 1
Nirankari in
Phagwara. • Sukhwinder Singh Sangha claimed responsibility for killing 3 and injuring 2 people in 2 separate incidents for alleged blasphemy and anti-Sikh acts. • On 8 April 1989, Sukhwinder Singh Sangha claimed responsibility for killing 6 police informants of one family. • On 24 June 1989, Superintendent of Police (Operations) Avtar Singh Chhetra was killed in an encounter with 5 BTFK militants in Tarn Taran. The encounter was described as fierce and continued for many hours. Multiple officers died in it as well. All the militants were also killed. Chhetra had been accused of torturing militants. • On the morning of 25 June 1989 KLF and BTFK members attacked
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) members at their meeting at Nehru Park in Moga. 21 RSS members were killed with a police officer, a paramilitary
home guard and a couple dying of a bomb blast after the shooting leaving a total of 25 dead and 31-35 injured. It has since been renamed to Shahidi Park meaning Martyr Park. According to police Sikhs opened fire with automatic weapons from a van killing 21 and injuring many. According to survivors bullets were sprayed on everyone. They then left the scene. Soon after a powerful bomb blast occurred which killed 4, injured more, and caused damage. A second bomb also blew up after, but it caused no damage or injuries. A curfew was announced immediately following the incident. • On 28 December 1989, Sukhwinder Singh Sangha and fellow BTFK militants attacked a
CRPF patrol and killed 4
jawans. • On 6 February 1990, Sukhwinder Singh Sangha killed 2 Punjab Police officers in
Jagatpur and stole their weapons. Sangha said in a statement to the media that they have set up a checkpoint in Jagatpur and will stop all officers attempting to cross. • On 2 March 1990, KCF faction chief Gurjant Singh Rajasthani and BTFK chief Gurbachan Singh Manochahal claimed responsibility for killing Amritsar Jail Superintendent Pyara Lal. They claimed he tortured Sikhs in prison. • On 16 March 1990, BTFK and KCF claimed responsibility for destroying 2 police vehicles, killing 4
home guards, and inuring 2
home guards near Riaa. They also warned officers in nearby villages and cities to leave their jobs in 10 days or meet a similar fate. • On 6 April 1990, Sukhwinder Singh Sangha claimed responsibility for killing 5
BSF soldiers near
Hoshiarpur. • On 14 April 1990, BTFK
Lieutenant General Waryam Singh Boore Nangal claimed responsibility for killing one
Assistant Sub-Inspector and taking his
revolver near
Batala. • On 20 April 1990, Satnam Singh Satta Cheena and Sukhwinder Singh Sangha claimed responsibility for killing Communist leader Hardev Singh. • On 27 April 1990, Sukhwinder Singh Sangha claimed responsibility for the
Sarpanch of
Bibi Pur, Ram Lal. Sangha said that he had joined
Congress and for that was killed. • On 25 May 1990, Sukhwinder Singh Sangha claimed responsibility for killing Communist leader Kartar Chand near Nurpur Thana. • On 25 May 1990, Sukhwinder Singh Sangha claimed responsibility for killing a soldier named Bhag Singh in Uaid. Sangha claimed Bhag Singh was a rapists and thus killed as punishment. • On 31 August 1990, Sukhwindwer Singh Sangha claimed responsibility for destroying
BSF jeeps and killing BSF near
Nakodar. • On 24 November 1990, at 9 am BTFK along with other militant groups part of the Sohan Singh Committee killed Superintendent of Police (Operations) Harjit Singh in a bomb blast at
Tarn Taran. Sikh militants had been studying Harjit's travel routes for some time. A remote-controlled bomb had been placed on a road Harjit usually drove by to go to the doctor. When Harjit's lead security vehicles drove by and it was just his vehicle over the bomb it was detonated. In the explosion three of his security guards were killed and his vehicle was destroyed. Harjit's limbs were found over 100 meters away from the location of the explosion. A permanent curfew was put on the town after. A saying about the incident is, "He had a security vehicle in front of him and behind him, so he would be safe from all sides. But he didn’t count on his death coming from below". Twenty-two days prior to his death Harjit had killed the chief of BTFK (S) Sukhwinder Singh Sangha along with four other militants.
KLF,
KCF,
Babbar Khalsa,
SSF, and BTFK (S) members held a meeting afterward pledging to kill Harjit within 31 days of Sangha's death. Major Singh of KCF was given the lead role in the killing. A famous
kavishri ballad about this incident says, "24 November at exactly 9, for Sangha’s revenge Major Singh and his allies have arrived. Without wasting any time Kharkus have come to kill him… The 5 jathebandis [Groups] had said we would hit him hard… To become SSP he had done many misdeeds… Watch how with a computer system [remote-controlled bomb]
Kharkus blow him up. Harjit’s wife watches his limbs blow up… Operation Shera has been done on the SP of Operation." • On 6 June 1991, BTFK member Dilsher Singh Shera killed
Brij Bhushan Mehra,
Punjab legislative speaker for 4 years and a senior
Congress leader, in
Amritsar as he travelled by car under
security. His driver was killed and gunmen seriously injured. • On 7 June 1991, BTFK (Sangha), KLF, KCF (Panjwar), and SSF claimed responsibility for an assassination attempt on
India's Home Minister Subodh Kant Sahay in
Ludhiana. Kharkus made a bomb attack on his convoy. Sahay’s bulletproof vehicle flipped over, but he escaped with minor wounds. His driver and 1 bodyguard were seriously wounded. • On 9 October 1991, Superintendent of Police (Headquarters) Joginder Singh Kherawas killed by KLF and BTFK. Khera was ambushed in
Ropar. Khera was one of the leading officers in the Punjab Police force. He was killed with nine commandos. • On 3 July 1992, BTFK Sangha members Jasmer Singh Lalli and Jaspal Singh Pal claimed responsibility for killing 4 police officers including 1
Head Constable near Panjkotla. They also injured a
Superintendent of Police (SP) and 8 other officers. • On 3 July 1992, BTFK Sangha members Jasmer Singh Lalli and Jaspal Singh Pal claimed responsibility for killing 2
Indian Army soldiers and wounding 1 near
Sanghol. After defending himself for an hour with a machine gun, he was killed. The chief of the Punjab Police,
Kanwar Pal Singh Gill later proclaimed, "Now I can say that we have finished militancy in Punjab." • A letter purporting to be from the BTFK claimed responsibility for a bomb blast in Jalandhar in September 2018. ==See also==