Career
In 1986, he was named Minister of State. Although he survived the assassination attempt, he was killed five years later at his home in India. lieutenant was later determined that "clear information on the pending attempt on his life" had been given to Canadian authorities two days prior, but since the attack occurred over a weekend, the information was not passed on to its necessary agency until the following Monday.
While driving on an isolated gravel road near Gold River on Vancouver Island with three other people, Sidhu"s car was forced to stop when another vehicle stopped in front of them.
The occupants exited their vehicle and began smashing Sidhu"s car with hammers, firing five.32-calibre bullets into the car, striking Sidhu in the arm and chest. Sidhu feigned death, and the men ran back to their vehicle.
Shortly afterward, Jasbir Singh Atwal, Jaspal Singh Atwal, Armajit Singh Dhindsa and Sukhdial Singh Gill were arrested at a police roadblock. In February 1987, all four men were convicted and sentenced to 20 years" imprisonment.
Center for Strategic and International Studies director Ted Finn resigned shortly after it was revealed that the Center for Strategic and International Studies affidavits were riddled with errors.
However a government appeal upheld their convictions and sentences in June 1990. Sidhu was one of five Indian politicians running for office who were killed in 1991, gunned down along with his bodyguard by militants on April 27 while driving from his house in Moga to visit a friend.