Gajinder Singh Dal Khalsa

Gajinder Singh is the chief of the Dal Khalsa International. Gajinder8217;s most significant activity and the reason he first came into public notice was after he hijacked an Indian Airlines flight to Lahore in 1981. The hijacking was carried out to protest against the arrest of Bhindranwale earlier that year for his alleged role in the assassination of 8216;Hind Samachar8217; editor Lala Jagat Narain.

The hijacker was given a life sentence but served only a few years in jail before being granted asylum in Pakistan. The hijacking was one of the five such acts carried out by pro-Khalistan groups. Pakistan8217;s direct involvement in these outrages was revealed after the 1984 hijacking, when the then West German officials confirmed that a pistol used by the terrorists was part of an official military consignment that had been sent to that country.

The Dal Khalsa, was banned in 1982, but was allowed to restart overground activity a decade later and on August 11, 2001 Gajinder Singh was elected as the chairman of the organization while being in asylum in Pakistan.

Gajinder Singh continues to be wanted for the 1981 hijacking of the Indian Airlines flight.