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Satwant Singh (1962 – 6 January 1989) was one of the bodyguards, along with Beant Singh, who assassinated the Prime Minister of India, Indira Gandhi, at her New Delhi residence on 31 October 1984. His attacks were in retaliation of Indira Gandhi's Operation Blue Star .
Indian prime minister Indira Gandhi was assassinated at 9:30 a.m. on 31 October 1984 at her residence in Safdarjung Road, New Delhi. She was killed by her Sikh bodyguards, Satwant Singh and Beant Singh, in the aftermath of Operation Blue Star by the Indian Army between 1 and 8 June 1984 on the orders of Gandhi.
Oct 31, 2023 · Two of the Prime Minister’s bodyguards, Beant Singh and Satwant Singh, fired over 30 bullets at her from point blank range, purportedly to avenge the humiliation of Sikhs and the desecration of the Golden Temple during Operation Blue Star in June of that year.
Feb 28, 2024 · Satwant Singh was arrested [1] and later sentenced to death by hanging, along with another Sikh charged as a conspirator Kehar Singh. The sentence was carried out on January 6, 1989. [2] Contents. 1 Satwant Singh's Statement to the Court. 2 Satwant's last meeting with his Vakeel. 3 The Day of the Execution. 4 Honors and death anniversaries.
Dec 15, 1984 · Satwant Singh, the constable who pumped 23 bullets into the frail body of Mrs Gandhi, probably wishes he were dead. He himself has been so badly injured that he cannot wear clothes. Though Satwant Singh is interrogated everyday - he is repeatedly asked to remember names, dates, faces - he reveals very little.
On 24th October 1984, Beant Singh and Satwant Singh took Amrit at a Gurdwara in Delhi. Neither were particularly knowledgeable on Gurbani, but Operation Blue Star and the legend of Sukha Singh and Mehtab Singh were foremost in their mind. This is what led them to take the blessing of Amrit.
NEW DELHI- Special Judge Mahesh Chandra today convicted Satwant Singh, Kehar Singh and Balbir Singh on the charges of murder and conspiracy to murder late Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, and...
Jul 7, 2019 · Shaheed Bhai Satwant Singh was born in 1962 in the house of Sardar Tarlok Singh and Sardarni Pyar Kaur, in the village Agwan Kurd, district Gurdaspur. Village Agwan Kurd is only 3km from the India – Pakistan border. Bhai Sahib had 2 elder brothers, Gurnam Singh and Waryam Singh, and a younger brother and sister, Swaran Singh and Ranjit Kaur.
Nov 2, 2014 · The assassination of Indira Gandhi changed the lives of the families of Beant and Satwant Singh forever. Beant’s son had to shift cities, drop a school year. Satwant’s family faced social boycott. Every anniversary of the former PM’s killing, they wonder: could they have stopped it?
Beant fired three rounds into her abdomen from his .38 (9.7 mm) revolver, then Satwant fired 30 rounds from his Sterling sub-machine gun after she had fallen to the ground. Beant Singh was immediately killed by other guards present and Satwant Singh was hanged in 1989 with accomplice Kehar Singh.
