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KPS Gill: Supercop or Genocidal Maniac?

Sri Guru Granth Sahib warns the proud and the arrogant of the ultimate reality of death: ਸਿਰ ਕੰਪਿਓ ਪਗ ਡਗਮਗੇ ਨੈਨ ਜੋਤਿ ਤੇ ਹੀਨ ॥ The head shakes, the feet stagger, and the eyes become dull and weak. ਕਹ ਨਾਨਕ ਇਹ ਬਿਧਿ ਭਈ ਤਊ ਨ ਹਰਿ ਰਸਿ ਲੀਨ ॥੪੭॥ Says Nanak, this is your condition. And even now, you have not savored the sublime essence of the Lord. ((47)) This verse of the Ninth Guru applies directly to KPS Gill , the Ex Director General of Police in Punjab during the dark period of 1980-90s. The Indian politicians and newspapers hail him as " Supercop " but the people of Punjab remember him as the devil who snatched away their young sons in extra-judicial killings famously known as the " Fake encounters ". Sadhavi Khosla with KPS Gill on his Death Bed Kanwar Pal Singh Gill (1934/35 – 26 May 2017) was an Indian police officer. He was admitted to Sir Ganga Ram Hospital in Delhi on May 18, 2017. Gill, who finally got done in by kidneys that failed him (he w