Multiple choice general knowledge history

Sardar Sukhdev Singh Sukha and Sardar Harjinder Singh Jinda were sentenced to death for

  1. bombing the air india flight from montreal

  2. assassination of Indira gandhi

  3. assassination of general arun shankar vaidhya

  4. attempting to blast an indian airlines flight (but which could not be done as the flight was delayed)
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Explanation

Sukha and Jinda assassinated General (Retd.) Arun Shankar Vaidya on August 10, 1986, in Pune. Vaidya was the Chief of Army Staff who had ordered Operation Bluestar in 1984, making him a prime target for Sikh militants seeking revenge. They were sentenced to death and executed in 1992. The Air India bombing from Montreal was by Talwinder Singh Parmar and others, Indira Gandhi was assassinated by her bodyguards Beant Singh and Satwant Singh, and the Indian Airlines attempt was a different plot.

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