[5][6][7] Singh had gone on hunger strike along with Atal Bihari Vajpayee against the Election Commission decision, in the poll, and brought the case before the Jammu and Kashmir High Court, that overturned the result.
[10] In 1985, in a landmark hearing, Singh was awarded fifty thousand rupees by the Supreme Court of India for his false imprisonment, after being suspended as a Member of the Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly.
[11][12] In 2017, Singh defeated the government of India in the Supreme Court, enabling bar council elections to be held in Jammu and Kashmir for the very first time,[13] in accordance to the Advocates Act 1961.
He had led thousands of students from GGM Science College Jammu, in protest against ex Crown Prince Karan Singh and prime minister Bakshi Ghulam Mohammad, who had refused to fly the flag at half mast.
Bhim Singh had led the college students to capture the Secretariat building, and climbed the roof, to fly the flag at half mast in honour of his deceased king.
[49] In Chile he was personally received by its then President Salvador Allende, and in the Middle East he met with Yasir Arafat who later accepted Bhim Singh's invitation to India.
At the book release K. Padmanabhaiah, former Home Secretary of India, recalled Bhim Singh's contributions to reinstating the democratic process in Jammu and Kashmir in the 1996 assembly elections which were held after a gap of nine years.
[54] Guest of honour at the book release Amitabh Mattoo, compared Bhim Singh to Che Guevara, for his decades long lobbying for amendment to Article 370,[55][56] to fully integrate Jammu and Kashmir into India.
[64] He would return to Hiroshima several times throughout his political career on 6 August,[65] the anniversary of the atomic bombing, to observe the fast for disarmament at Peace Memorial Park, and lecture on world unity.
[73] He has contested seven times in the Indian parliamentary elections including against the former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi in Amethi, and former Bharatiya Janata Party leader LK Advani in New Delhi.
[74] As an advocate he has won many landmark cases in the Supreme Court of India and has been jailed several times while leading movements for students and youth demands including opening a university in Jammu.
[77] Bhim Singh filed a review petition against the order of the Election Commission of India, stating the declared result was rigged at the instance of Rajiv Gandhi and Farooq Abdullah, leaders of the ruling coalition parties.
[91] Palestinian ambassador, Adli Sadeq in 2010 at a conference organized by Indo-Palestine Friendship Society, had criticized the government of India,[92] for issuing a weak statement in regards to the killing of nine activists by Israel in the Gaza flotilla raid.
[93] In 2015, Bhim Singh criticized the Indian media and prime minister Narendra Modi, for their silence in regards to the unfriendly treatment and embarrassment suffered by the president of India, Pranab Mukherjee at an Israeli airport.
Israeli authorities had barred the Indian president, from taking four satellite systems intended as gifts for the Palestinian Al-Aqsa University in Ramallah, which Bhim Singh believed to be an insult to India as well as Palestine.
[94] The Supreme Court in a landmark judgement that impacted tort law in India, awarded Bhim Singh a compensation of fifty thousand rupees for his illegal detention and false imprisonment by the police.
Through writs he had filed through his political party and the State Legal Aid Committee which he headed, he has secured the release of 300 Pakistani, Pakistan administered Kashmir and Afghan prisoners from Indian jails, some of whom had been held for decades.
After over nine years of martial rule, with no elected representation of the people, the democratic process was finally returned by order of the Supreme Court in April, when it have judgement in favour of Prof. Bhim Singh.
[18][19][99] After the killing of Hizbul Mujahideen commander, Burhan Wani the state of Jammu and Kashmir was engulfed in violent riots leaving over 2,000 injured and the deaths of several civilians and CRPF personnel.
Thakur, the chief justice of India had requested solicitor general Ranjit Kumar present a response to Singh's petition on the "ground realities" in Jammu and Kashmir.
[13] In February 2017, in a historic judgement, the Supreme Court of India ruled in favor of Bhim Singh, allowing the state for the first time to elect its bar council.
After being elected president of Panthers Party at the age of 79, Bhim Singh on 14 February 2021, gave a statement to the media, that "Panthers party shall continue its peaceful fight for justice and equity... we shall all fight for truth and justice, equality and equity for all, irrespective of their religion, region, caste or class," along with reinstating the statehood of Jammu and Kashmir,[116] that had been previously converted into a union territory of India, on 6 August 2019, following the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act, 2019.
Bhim Singh was a member of the 22 person delegation to discuss the future of Jammu and Kashmir, chaired by Prime Minister Modi at his residence in New Delhi, India on 24 June 2021.
[133][134] In 2005 he was called ‘Vishwa Ratna,’ as possibly the only person in the world who could refuse 7.3 million barrels of oil vouchers as illustrated in Table 3 of Vol.II in the report of the UN Committee dealing with Oil-for-food program headed by Paul Volcker during sanctions placed on Iraq.
[138] Bhim Singh says that he had also turned down a thick envelope stuffed with cash, at the residence of the Iraqi ambassador in New Delhi, and that he only ever accepted a few token gifts from Saddam, like a bottle of fine alcohol and a Swiss Longines watch with the Ba'ath Party insignia on its dial .
[144][145] Bhim Singh has long alleged that the CIA, Mossad and ISI had become active in the 1970s to remove India's prime minister Indira Gandhi, from power and dissect Jammu and Kashmir away from under Indian administration.
[146][147] Singh who was named as a defence advocate by Slobodan Milosevic for his trial at the Hague claimed that "CIA has not learnt a lesson from the past and it wants to dissect India the way it did with USSR, Yugoslavia and elsewhere.
Bhim Singh believed that a bloody civil war may result as consequence of tribal disputes post-Gaddafi, and that the bifurcation or trifurcation of Libya itself maybe on the US agenda for what he claimed would give a better hold over oil resources.
[152] Bhim Singh had alleged that his opposition Abdullah family were secret billionaires in an interview with NewsX TV channel, calling for a CBI investigation into the sudden death of Haji Yusuf in police custody.
[148] Bhim Singh was the only lawyer from Asia, to be on Slobodan Milošević's defence team, headed by former US attorney general Ramsey Clark, at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague.