a jail cell with Sheikh Nazir the future general secretary of the National Conference party. Assassination attempt in Jammu protests, 1966 Bhim Singh was again arrested in 1966 for leading thousands of students in protest while president of the Jammu and Kashmir Students Congress. During the protests of October 1966, that called for an establishment of a university in Jammu four students were killed and fifty-three injured. On 17 October 1966, Brij Mohan, Subhash Chandra and Gulshan Handa died in protests on the G.G.M. Science College site in Jammu. While the senior superintendent of police shot student leader Gurcharan Singh on 18 October, at a students march in Kanak Mandi, Jammu. The superintendent had aimed for Bhim Singh but M.P. Khosla, the future chief secretary of Jammu and Kashmir, had intervened to save Bhim Singh's life. Later Bhim Singh escaped curfew to visit and appeal to prime minister Indira Gandhi in New Delhi. Gandhi set up an inquiry into the affair under Pranab Mukherjee, the future president of India, that found several government and police officials responsible for the deaths. University of Jammu was subsequently opened in 1969. World tour on motorbike Soon after he left India to travel the world from 1967-1973. Mostly by the way of motorbike he managed to visit more than a 150 countries. During his travels he was recorded by the Nigerian Times in 1970, as the first person to cross the Sahara Desert on motorcycle from Tan-Tan, Morocco to Senegal through Spanish Sahara and Mauritania. In Chile he was personally received by its then President Salvador Allende, and in the Middle East he met with Yasir Arafat who later accepted Bhim Singh's invitation to India. His book documenting his early travels "Peace Mission: Around the World on Motorcycle (Vol. I)" was published by Har Anand Publications in 2009. A Hindi version for the book was released a year later by Sheila Dikshit, then Chief Minister of Delhi. At the book release K. Padmanabhaiah, former Home Secretary of India, recalled Bhim Singh's contributions to reinstating the democratic process in Jammu and Kashmir in the 1996 assembly elections which were held after a gap of nine years. His next travelogue "Unbelievable—Delhi to Islamabad," addressed the need for fairer treatment of Pakistani prisoners in India. It was released by the vice president of India, Mohammad Hamid Ansari. Guest of honour at the book release Amitabh Mattoo, compared