10 August
On this day in 1992
Sukhdev Singh Sukha and Harjinder Singh Jinda were hanged to death
Harjinder Singh "Jinda" and Sukhdev Singh ‘Sukha’ were hanged to death. They gunned down General Vadiaya after his retirement from Indian army. General Vadiya was the Chief of the Indian Army who ordered the attack on the holiest of the holy shrines at Amritsar and elsewhere in Punjab during 1984 operations.
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- 1938Kartar Singh Kirti and Gurdit Singh of Mandhali were sent to the scaffold for the murder of Anup Singh