Bathinda military station firing

On 12 April 2023, four Indian Army soldiers were killed at a military base in Bathinda in the northern border state of Punjab, India.

On 17 April 2023, an army Gunner named Desai Mohan was arrested for allegedly killing the four soldiers with a stolen assault rifle. According to Bathinda Senior Superintendent of Police Gulneet Singh Khurana, he confessed to killing the four soldiers named Sagar Banne, Yogesh Kumar J, Santosh M Nagaral and Kamalesh R, with a stolen INSAS rifle.