The World - News from Sept. 2, 1986
Gunmen firing automatic weapons in a crowded bazaar killed the judge of a special anti-extremist court in India’s Punjab state, police said. Police in Jullundur said that Judge R. P. Gaind, 50, was shot to death as he made a phone call and that the two attackers escaped on a motor scooter. Gaind had sat on a special court set up to deal with unrest in the northern Indian state, which has been torn by violence sparked by extremists seeking to establish an independent Sikh homeland.
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