London, 15 October, 2013 - Three Sikh men and a woman convicted of
carrying out a life-threatening attack on Operation Bluestar commander
Lt Gen Kuldip Singh Brar (retd) will be sentenced on December 10, a UK
court ruled . Pro-Khalistani supporters had tried to slash the throat of
the 78-year-old retired army officer in London last year as a revenge
attack for his role in the operation to flush out militants from the
Golden Temple in Amritsar in 1984.
While Barjinder Singh Sangha, 33, had pleaded guilty to the offence early on in the case, Mandeep Singh Sandhu, 34, Dilbagh Singh, 36, and Harjit Kaur, 38, were found guilty following a trial at Southwark Crown Court in London on July 31.The case had been listed for September 19, which proved “noneffective” as the pre-sentencing document had not been issued.
During the trial in July, the prosecution had revealed that Kaur had tracked the retired soldier as he holidayed in London’s West End with his wife Meena.
She then passed on the Brars’ whereabouts to the attackers in September 2012. Sangha, Sandhu and Dilbagh are accused of carrying out the attack. Brar, giving evidence via videolink from India, said a website had declared him “number one enemy of the Sikhs”.
While Barjinder Singh Sangha, 33, had pleaded guilty to the offence early on in the case, Mandeep Singh Sandhu, 34, Dilbagh Singh, 36, and Harjit Kaur, 38, were found guilty following a trial at Southwark Crown Court in London on July 31.The case had been listed for September 19, which proved “noneffective” as the pre-sentencing document had not been issued.
During the trial in July, the prosecution had revealed that Kaur had tracked the retired soldier as he holidayed in London’s West End with his wife Meena.
She then passed on the Brars’ whereabouts to the attackers in September 2012. Sangha, Sandhu and Dilbagh are accused of carrying out the attack. Brar, giving evidence via videolink from India, said a website had declared him “number one enemy of the Sikhs”.
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