Dara Singh (Bajrang Dal), Date of Birth

    

Dara Singh (Bajrang Dal)

Indian Hindu extremist and convicted murderer

Date of Birth: 02-Oct-1962

Profession: musician

Nationality: India

Zodiac Sign: Libra


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About Dara Singh (Bajrang Dal)

  • Dara Singh (né Ravinder Kumar Pal; He was convicted for leading a mob that murdered Australian Christian missionary Graham Staines and his two sons, Philip (aged 10) and Timothy (aged 6) on 22 January 1999.
  • The Staines were sleeping in their station wagon at Manoharpur village in the Kendujhar district of the Indian state of Orissa, about 400 kilometres (250 mi) from Bhubaneswar, when the mob stormed and set the vehicle ablaze. Singh was earlier involved in the cow protection movement of the Bajrang Dal and had earlier targeted Muslim beef traders.
  • The Wadhwa Commission stated that the Bajrang Dal was not involved in the murder of Staines, justifying its non-examination of the role of the Bajrang Dal on the grounds that the Dal was a peaceful and legal organization.Singh was also charged in the dispatching of Muslim trader Shaikh Rehman at Padibeda village in Karanjia sub-division of Mayurbhanj district.
  • and in the murder of a Christian cleric, Arul Das, in Jamboni village in the same district.
  • Das was killed by an arrow as he was escaping after his church was set on fire.

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