LONDON, UK—Based on reports by various Italian media organizations, the Sikh Channel UK has published news of another arrest in the case of the 2012 attack on Retired Indian General Kuldeep Brar.
Lakhbir Singh was arrested yesterday by police in Fermo Ros and the provincial command of Ascoli Piceno in execution of a European arrest warrant for extradition made by a court in the United Kingdom for the crime of attempted aggravated murder for alleged terrorist purposes.
Lieutenant General Kuldeep Brar, who led Operation Bluestar in the 1984 Genocide against the Sikh community and invaded the Golden Temple, was stabbed and injured in 2012 while he was in London with his wife outside their hotel. The retired army officer usually stays in a high-security compound in the cantonment area in Mumbai.
On June 5, 1984, troops entered the Harmandir Sahib Complex (mistakenly known as the Golden Temple) in Amritsar to carry out a well organised operation which included mass action on Sikh Gurdwara’s throughout Punjab and against the Sikh community. Sant Jarnail Singh Bhindrawale demanded equal rights for Sikhs and the Punjab state which was causing the Indian Government much embarrassment at the time. General Brar’s troops were successful at killing thousands of innocent men, women and children as they unleashed terror in the state of Punjab.
