What the records say
- When
- 5 Sep 1985
- Kind
- Assassination
- Deaths
- 2
- Coordinates
- 28.61° N, 77.21° E
- Description
- 1985 assassination of politician in New Delhi, India
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
Assassination of Arjun Dass
1985 murder of politician in New Delhi, India
On 4 September 1985, at 9:20 am member of the Delhi Metropolitan Council, close associate of Sanjay Gandhi, and Congress leader Arjun Dass was assassinated by 3 Sikhs in Delhi. The assassins were Harjinder Singh Jinda, Sukhdev Singh Sukha, and another member of Jinda's group. They killed Dass in revenge for his role in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots.
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