Sant Bhindrawale Addressing a Sikh Gathering during Dharam Yudh Morcha
LONDON, UK (January 31, 2014)—Reports are coming in of claims that the SAS advised the Indira Gandhi government to kidnap Sant Jarnail Bhindranwale. They claim SAS officers trained Indian Special Forces in techniques that would assist in the plan to raid Darbar Sahib and Akal Takht (also known as Golden Temple) and extract their target.
The British government this week met with Sikh organizations in the UK regarding an urgent inquiry into the matter and has had plenty of time to review documents, talk to ministers from the Thatcher government and examine SAS reports. Yet details of British involvement in 1984 are currently leaking out on social media networks ahead of parliamentary statements to house.
Sant Jarnail Singh Bhindrawale was an influential Sikh leader who raised voice against oppression of the Sikh community in India during the early 1980s.