Dilawar Singh Babbar

Who was Dilawar Singh Babbar?

Dilawar Singh Babbar was the assassin of Beant Singh, the Chief Minister of Punjab. He was a serving Punjab Police officer when he joined Babbar Khalsa International and became a human bomb to assassinate the Chief Minister of Punjab.

He assassinated Beant Singh by blowing up his bullet-proof car at 5 p.m. on August 31, 1995 in the Punjab and Haryana Civil Secretariat, Chandigarh. Beant Singh was allegedly blamed for thousands of extra judicial murders of Sikhs. Beant Singh was made chief minister when Sikh parties had boycotted the elections. With voter turnout in the low twenties, Beant Singh's governance was widely believed by the Sikhs as lacking legitimacy. The killing was in retaliation for alleged mass scale human rights violations during Beant Singh's reign.