Amar Singh Chamkila and his wife, Amarjot Kaur, were killed by masked gunmen in the town of Mehsampur in 1988. Their driver, Ranjeet Singh, recalled the events of their last day in an old interview, published in 2017.
The musician Lal Chand, who was with Amar Singh Chamkila on the day that the singer was gunned down in Mehsampur, narrated the chain of events that transpired, from the moment they left their office to when Chamkila and his wife were shot.