n the way they hacked off the arm of a hindu sweetmeats seller this was regarded as probably the first act of terrorist violence in punjab on arriving at the convention fauja singh tried to behead the nirankari leader with his sword but was shot by the leader's bodyguard the brawl that ensued thereafter left of the raiding party dead including two of bhindranwale s followers another eleven of the akhand kirtani jatha were killed three nirankaris were also killed bhindranwale himself was reported to have fled the scene just as the violence broke out which damaged relations between him and the akhand kirtani jatha fauja singh s widow often blamed him for her husband s death these statements dispute the neutrality of the article all these have a pro nirankari bias the article needs to be cleaned up of these statements