Bhai Sukha and Bhai Mehtab Singh confront Massa Ranghar

Sukha Singh was a Sikh warrior from present-day

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. Kamboki near Amritsar. He was born to mother Bibi Haro and father Bhai Ladha. He is remembered for being one of the two assassins of

Massa Ranghar Massa Ranghar, formally Ranghar, also known by his birth name Musalal Khan was the Ranghar choudhary of Mandiala. In 1738, Qazi Abdul Razzaq was killed in an encounter with the Sikhs under Nawab Kapur Singh. The Subahdar (Governor) of Lahore ...

, alongside Mehtab Singh.

Revenge at Harmandir Sahib

On 11 August 1740, they dressed up as landlords from Patti and entered the city of

Amritsar Amritsar, also known as Ambarsar, is the second-List of cities in Punjab, India by population, largest city in the India, Indian state of Punjab, India, Punjab, after Ludhiana. Located in the Majha region, it is a major cultural, transportatio ...

. They reached

Harmandir Sahib The Golden Temple is a gurdwara located in Amritsar, Punjab, India. It is the pre-eminent spiritual site of Sikhism. It is one of the Holy place, holiest sites in Sikhism, alongside the Gurdwara Darbar Sahib Kartarpur in Kartarpur, Pakistan, ...

and then tied their horses to the berry tree and went inside

carrying the bags. Massa Ranghar was smoking

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and watching dancing girls. The Sikhs threw the bags under Massa's bed and said that they had come to pay the revenue. Massa bent downwards to have a look at the bags. Mehtab Singh immediately took his sword and slashed it at Massa's neck and instantly severed his head. Sukha Singh finished off the guards of Massa Ranghar. They put Massa's head in a bag and rode their horses back to

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the same evening. The next day they reached

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and presented Massa Ranghar's head on a spear to the congregation (Dal) of Sikhs.

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