40 years ago September 29, 1986: Violence and arrests in Punjab

40 years ago September 29, 1986: Violence and arrests in Punjab This is the front page of The Indian Express published on September 29, 1986.

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• 2 min readSep 29, 2026 06: 40 AM IST First published on: Sep 29, 2026 at 06: 40 AM IST.
• This is the front page of The Indian Express published on September 29, 1986.
• The Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee-I (DPCC-I) demanded that Sonia Gandhi be appointed the Congress-I chief.
• Lebanese Forces militiamen crushed a thrust by the supporters of a rival Christian leader to regain control of East Beirut.

Two persons were killed and two others, including a granthi of a gurdwara, were injured in Punjab during the past 24 hours while the police and paramilitary forces arrested five suspected extremists. While another person identified as Sher Singh was shot at and injured seriously, avtar Singh was gunned down by two individuals when he was standing outside a house in Dangoan village in Ludhiana district.

In practice, the Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee-I (DPCC-I) demanded that Sonia Gandhi be appointed the Congress-I chief. An executive committee session of DPCC-I's labour cell passed a resolution urging an All-India Congress-I Committee special session to elect her Indian National Congress president. Militias clash in Beirut.

Lebanese Forces militiamen crushed a thrust by the supporters of a rival Christian leader to regain control of East Beirut. Police remarked the fighting left 62 residents dead and 198 wounded. "The last pocket of resistance was mopped up at daybreak, when 12 infiltrators from Elie Hobeika supporters surrendered, " remarked a communiqué of the Lebanese Forces, the nation's largest Christian militia. © The Indian Express Pvt Ltd.

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