Dilawar Singh Babbar
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Dilawar Singh Babbar was a serving police officer in the Punjab Police
Punjab Police
Punjab Police may refer to:* Punjab Police , which operates in the Indian state of Punjab* Punjab Police , which operates in the Pakistani province of Punjab...

 of India at the time of his becoming a human bomb. He joined Babbar Khalsa International, during his service in the Punjab Police
Punjab Police
Punjab Police may refer to:* Punjab Police , which operates in the Indian state of Punjab* Punjab Police , which operates in the Pakistani province of Punjab...

 and volunteered to become a suicide bomber to assassinate Beant Singh, 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 Civit Secretariat, Chandigarh. Beant Singh
Beant Singh
There are at least two people called Beant Singh:*Beant Singh, who assassinated Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi*Beant Singh, the assassinated Chief Minister of the Punjab...

 was made chief minister of Punjab even though more than 90% of voters had boycotted the 1992 state elections.

Dilawar Singh's mother, Bibi Surjit Kaur, and father, Baba Harnek Singh, live in Guru Nanak Nagar, Patiala, Punjab
Punjab (India)
Punjab ) is a state in the northwest of the Republic of India, forming part of the larger Punjab region. The state is bordered by the Indian states of Himachal Pradesh to the east, Haryana to the south and southeast and Rajasthan to the southwest as well as the Pakistani province of Punjab to the...

, India
India
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. His father was a government employee. His elder brother works for a private company.

His death anniversary functions are regularly held in India and abroad. The Khalsa Action Committee (KAC), an umbrella organization of several hardline Sikh organizations, honoured the father and mother of Dilawar Singh, Harnek Singh and Surjit Kaur with the Shaheed Baba Deep Singh gold medal at a function in the city of Amritsar
Amritsar
Amritsar is a city in the northern part of India and is the administrative headquarters of Amritsar district in the state of Punjab, India. The 2001 Indian census reported the population of the city to be over 1,500,000, with that of the entire district numbering 3,695,077...

. He was also given the title of 'pride of the nation' by religious sikhs.
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