Gurdaspur terror attack: SP killed, his cop father killed 31 yrs ago

“We never imagined that 31 years later, he would meet the same fate as his father,” Vandana, a family friend said. She said Baljit and his wife, Kulwant Kaur, had been preparing for the wedding of a daughter who got engaged recently.

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“He was a thorough professional, devoted to his work. He always led from the front. Even today, he was doing just that,” Vandana said. His wife, who has a heart condition, was told that he had met with an accident and was critical. “She perhaps realised that he was no more. She has gone into shock,” another family friend said.

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A colleague said Baljit was in the first lot of officers to reach the attack site.

“At 5.35 am, I got a call from him to get ready to go to Dinanagar. He told me that terrorists had attacked the police station. By 6 am, we were in Dinanagar. Our team was assigned the task of engaging the terrorists from a building near the police station. Our job was to stop them from escaping through a rear exit. SP sahib was firing, using a SLR,” ASI Bhupinder Singh said.

“The terrorists were returning fire. SP sahib injured his knee and asked me to get a pain-relief spray and water. I went downstairs. Within minutes, I got a call from a colleague who said that SP sahib had been shot. A bullet hit him in the head and he died on the spot,” Bhupinder Singh said.