[4] As per Asian Human Rights Commission, "The Congress Government under Chief Minister Beant Singh created a situation where even subordinate police officers became the judge, jury and executioner of innocent people.

Sikh boys were picked up from their houses or fields and taken blindfolded to isolated places and told to run.

Many members of the police force in Punjab got out-of-turn promotions, gallantry awards and monetary rewards for killing “innocent peoples”.

The attack on 31 August 1995 resulted in the death of Beant Singh, Dilawar Singh and 17 others,[10] and, on 25 December 1997, backup police officer Rajoana confessed his involvement[11] while blaming the Indian government that it has murdered its own innocent people and promoted and honored the killers of Sikhs, its Chief Minister Beant Singh had licensed fake encounter killings, rape, abductions, and secret cremations which remains unpunished even today, refused to contest the court proceedings because of his lack of trust in the Indian judicial system, and death penalty was awarded to him.

[6] On 23 March 2012, he was awarded with the title of "National Martyr" by the Akal Takht, the highest temporal seat of the Khalsa.