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Avinder Singh Brar was an Indian Police Service officer who was killed by suspected militants in 1987 in Punjab, India. At the time of his death, he was senior superintendent of police of Patiala.^[1] He was awarded Padma Shri in 1988.

He studied at St. George's College, Mussoorie and at Delhi University's St Stephen's College. He was a keen swimmer and held a national record in the 100 m breaststroke. He was awarded the Asiad Jyoti for organising the swimming events at the Asian Games in New Delhi. He was survived by his wife, Sukhdeep, an IAS officer, and two children: a three-year-old son and a one-year-old daughter.

References

^ "Terrorists kill senior Punjab IPS officers Avinder Singh Brar and K.R.S. Gill". 15 January 1988.

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1950s	S. K. Dey (1954) Apa Pant (1954) Tarlok Singh (1954) S. P. P. Thorat (1954) Kewal Singh (1955) Gurbaksh Singh Dhillon (1957) Mathew Kandathil Mathulla (1959) Onkar Srinivasa Murthy (1959)
1960s	Nuthakki Bhanu Prasad (1960) Bishnupada Mukerjee (1962) Challagalla Narasimham (1962) P. K. Banerjee (1963) N. G. Krishna Murti (1963) Surinder Singh Bedi (1966) Sanganbasappa Mallangouda Patil (1966) Sardar Mohan Singh (1966) Kiran Chandra Banerjee (1967) Jehangir Shapurji Bhownagary (1968) Krishna Swaroop Mullick (1968) Chand Chhabra (1969) Kumar Nandan Prasad (1969)
1970s	Sunil Kumar Bhattacharya (1970) Jagmohan (1971) Himangshu Mohan Choudhury (1972) Brajbir Saran Das (1972) B. D. Pande (1972) Ranjit Singh Sarkaria (1972) V. Krishnamurthy (1973) Syed Zahoor Qasim (1974) Ajit Chandra Chatterjee (1975) Krishna Prasad Dar (1975) Pessie Madan (1975) Arjan Singh (1975) V. S. Wakankar (1975) Thangam Philip (1976) Rangaswamy Narasimhan (1977) Paul Pothen (1977) B. V. Raju (1977)
1980s	Madhav Gadgil (1981) Mohamed Zainuddin Juvale (1981) Narla Tata Rao (1983) Mohammad Hamid Ansari (1984) Jasdev Singh (1985) Anil Kumar Lakhina (1986) Ramesh Inder Singh (1986) Mohammad Izhar Alam (1987) Gurbachan Jagat (1987) Avinder Singh Brar (1988) Sarbdeep Singh Virk (1988) Kanwar Pal Singh Gill (1989) Ved Marwah (1989)
1990s	Achyut Madhav Gokhale (1990) Mehmoodur Rehman (1991) Prakash Singh (1991) Inderjit Kaur Barthakur (1992) M. K. Narayanan (1992) J. N. Saksena (1992) Oudh Narayan Shrivastava (1992) Chewang Phunsog (1992) Suryadevara Ramachandra Rao (1992)
2000s	E. Sreedharan (2001) Mohammad Ahmed Zaki (2001) Syamal Bhushan Ghosh Dastidar (2009)
2010s	D. R. Karthikeyan (2010) Pranab K. Sen (2011) Parveen Talha (2014) P. V. Rajaraman (2015) R. Vasudevan (2015) Kanwal Sibal (2017) T. K. Viswanathan (2017) S. S. Rathore (2018) S. Jaishankar (2019)
2020s	(Nil) (2020) (Nil) (2021) Guruprasad Mohapatra (Posthumous) (2022) (Nil) (2023)

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