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Lt Gen (Retd) KS Brar, who led Operation Blue Star, attacked in London

Published October 1, 2012 | 12:35 pm

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General K S Brar attached in LondonLondon: Lt General (Retd) K S Brar, who led the Operation Blue Star against Sikh militants in 1984, was attacked and injured in London.

78-year-old Lt Gen Brar, a Z-category protectee, was stabbed by four men outside a hotel in London, sources said, adding the former army man received minor injuries and was taken to hospital.
Later, he was discharged. It was not immediately confirmed who the attackers were.

Sources said that the Military attache in the Indian High Commission in London has rushed to check on the decorated former military officer, known for leading the operations against Sikh terrorist holed up in Golden Temple, Amritsar, in 1984.

They said the incident took place at 0100 IST on Old Quebec Street near Hyde Park when he was out with his wife. The couple are in London on a private visit. Gen Brar attended by the London Ambulance Service (LAS).

Scotland Yard said that investigations were continuing but no arrests had been made so far.

A Yard spokesman said: “Officers and LAS attended the scene and discovered a man, aged in his 70s, suffering from an injury believed caused by a knife”.

He added: “The man has been taken to hospital where he remains in a serious condition – his injuries are not believed to be life threatening”.

Sources said external affairs minister SM Krishna, who is in New York, called up the Indian High Commissioner J Bhagwati to know about the condition of Gen Brar, who has been on the hit-list of various extremists and militant organisations after his central role in Operation Blue Star in 1984.

The operation was aimed to flush out Sikh terrorists led by Jarnail Singh Bhindrawale from the Golden Temple, who was demanding a separate state for Sikhs called Khalistan.

Gen Brar is a decorated soldier who saw action in the 1971 war with Pakistan. He was among the first to enter Dhaka to force the Pakistani army into surrender.
(PTI)

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  • Fearless

    I think this is handiwork of Indian agencies active in the Europe to defame Sikhs as they are trying to put pressure to declare 1984 as genocide

  • SinghBahadur

    I think, it is same like 1984. Congress is going to loose the 2014 general election. They do not have any election Issue. top congress leaders facing Corruption charges. As they did in 1984, Now again wants to target sikhs, to get attention and win elections

  • http://www.facebook.com/rj.singh.125 RJ Singh

    those sikhs were not terrorists nor were they “holed up” in the golden temple. they were in a place of worship, a holy place that under no circumstances should have been attacked by a military force. whoever wrote this article has some serious gaps in knowledge about what occurred in 1984, or more likely, knows and does not care

    • Hemant Singh

      dey were hiding nd building ground in harmandar sahib. Military had to act because it was getting out of control. Hindus, who are an integral part of punjab alongwith sikh brethren, were being killed. If Kasab goes to a mosque and starts building ground then will not d security forces act ?? So I request you to be brave and accept what was happening in 1984. If you say that operation bluestar was unjustified then in the same breath you should also say that bhindrawale was also not justified in storing ammunition inside d temple. A lot of hindus also go nd worship in d temple, bhindrawale should have not desecrated such a holy place.