Chandigarh: One of the 33 officers charge-sheeted by the Punjab Government for allowing illegal hotels to mushroom in the Golden Temple’s vicinity during their tenure today filed an affidavit before the Punjab and Haryana High Court on steps taken by the ...
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UK says it advised India on Bluestar
London, UK: The British government has confirmed the authenticity of official documents of 1984 that say a Special Services (SAS) adviser was sent to New Delhi to offer military advice before the storming of the Golden Temple that year. But ...
Read More »Whitehall probe into Thatcher role in 1984 Amritsar massacre ‘too narrow’, say Sikh groups.
UK: By Christopher Hope, Senior Political Correspondent Sikh groups have criticised the scope of a Whitehall review into whether British SAS soldiers were involved in the 1984 Amritsar massacre. They are concerned that the review only covered any British complicity ...
Read More »Indira Gandhi considered secret commando raid before Operation Bluestar
New Delhi: Months before Prime Minister Indira Gandhi sent the Indian Army into the Golden Temple in 1984, she considered a covert commando raid to apprehend radical Sikh leader Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale. Investigations by India Today into the recently declassified ...
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