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Lala Jagat Narain, an Arya Samaji, was a prominent opponent of Bhindranwale . He was murdered on September 9, 1981. He was shot dead on September 9, 1981, near Amaltas Motel on the national highway while returning to Jalandhar from Patiala. Bhindranwale barricaded himself inside the fortified Gurudwara Gurdarshan Parkash at Mehta Chowk , but was pursuaded to surrender on September 20, 1981. For 25 days, violence exploded all over [[Punjab, while Bhindranwale was jailed in a Circuit House. During the eighties, sikh extremists killed anyone who sold their papers. Hind Samachar Group of Newspapers had initiated a fund for helping victims of terrorism and that of natural calamities. His family had not only lost two of its members — Lala Jagat Narain and Ramesh Chander, but the newspaper lost 62 of its editorial staff A chair in the name of Lala Jagat Narain was established at Kurukshetra University in 1998. LINKS
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