About $12.5 million USD in 2023) from Punjab National Bank, Miller Gunj branch, Ludhiana[1] to finance the militancy for a separate Sikh state of Khalistan.

[2][3] Sukha was born in 1962 on 14 Sawan, Wednesday, at Chak N: 11 FF, District Sri Ganganagar, Rajasthan, to Saini Sikh family of Mengha Singh Banwait and Surjeet Kaur.

[citation needed] In 1983 he received his BA from Gian Joti College in Karanpur and was studying in MA English when Operation Bluestar occurred.

[5] Ranjit Singh "Gill" was arrested by Interpol in New Jersey, USA on 14 May 1987, he was deported back to India in May 1997 after lengthy legal cases and was sentenced to life imprisonment on 24 February 2003.

General Arun Vaidya was the Chief of the Indian Army who ordered the attack on armed militants holed up in the holiest of the Sikh shrines at Amritsar and elsewhere in Punjab during Operation Blue Star.

On 10 August 1986 Vaidya, the architect of Operation Blue Star was shot to death by Jinda and Sukha while he was driving his car home from the market.

[8] According to Indian intelligence sources, Vaidya had been the number four assassination target on lists by Sikh militants and he was one of several people killed in retaliation for Operation Blue Star.

[9][10] Following the assassination, the Khalistan Commando Force issued a statement declaring that Vaidya had been killed in retaliation for the Golden Temple operation.

He was riding the same black motorcycle which was used at the time of assassination of General Vaidya.Jinda got arrested at Gurdwara Majnoo Daa Tilla, Delhi in March 1987.

During their court trial, despite admitting to the killing, they pleaded not-guilty, justifying their actions by saying that Vaidya was "guilty of a serious crime, the punishment for which could only be death".

[19] On 9 October 2008, Shiromani Gurdwara Prabandhak Committee honoured kin of Jinda and Sukha in the Golden Temple complex, to mark their death anniversary.