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Wanted Babbar Khalsa militant Mehal Singh Babbar died of kidney failure in Pakistan on March 24, according to reports.
Babbar, a proclaimed offender since 1990 and wanted in connection with militancy in Amritsar, Jalandhar and Faridkot districts in the 1980s, died at a private hospital in Nankana Sahib on the night of March 24. Sources said that he is likely to be cremated on Wednesday evening.
Recently, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) had accused him of coordinating with gangsters and supplying weapons into India from Pakistan. According to the NIA, Babbar was the deputy chief of Babbar Khalsa International.
A former Indian Air Force officer, Babbar had been living in Pakistan since the early 1990s. He also reportedly went to France in 2003.
Babbar was the brother of Sukhdev Singh Babbar, the head of BKI in 1984, who was killed in 1992. Babbar’s wife Gurdev Kaur lives in Amritsar. In the late 80s, she and other women relatives of militants or suspected militants were allegedly picked up by the then Batala Senior Superintendent of Police Gobind Ram.
Following this, the then Akal Takht Jathedar Giani Darshan Singh Raggi had announced a protest outside Batala police headquarters. Ram was later killed in a bomb blast.
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