INDIA: SHOOTING OF PROMINENT SIKH PRIEST MARKS RETURN OF VIOLENCE TO PUNJAB STATE.

Record ID: 861247

  • Title: INDIA: SHOOTING OF PROMINENT SIKH PRIEST MARKS RETURN OF VIOLENCE TO PUNJAB STATE.
  • Date: 17th January 1985
  • Summary: LUDHIANA, PUNJAB, INDIA (JANUARY 17, 1985) ( REUTERS - JAGDISH KAPOOR) CUs INTERIOR Sikh high priest Kirpal Singh in hospital bed. (2 SHOTS) 0.20 SV & CU Singh's chauffeur receiving doctor's attention in adjoining bed. (2 SHOTS) 0.30 AMRITSAR, PUNJAB, INDIA JANUARY 17, 1985 ( REUTERS - JAGDISH KAPOOR) GVs Amritsar Golden Temple. (2 SHOTS) 0.37 JANUARY 15 , 1985 ( REUTERS - SURINDER KAPOOR) LV PAN SV & CUs Punjab street scenes with armed troops watching the passing traffic. / people on bicycles (4 SHOTS) 1.10 LV, SVs & CU EXTERIOR & INTERIOR OF Empty hotel with empty swimming pool and deserted reception area. (4 SHOTS) 1.28 SV Punjab people biking to work. 1.40 LV & SVs Closed factories and engineering works with men playing cards. (5 SHOTS) 2.01 InitialsJMS/JRS Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 1st February 1985 12:00
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  • Location: India, India
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  • Country: India
  • Topics: Crime,Politics
  • Reuters ID: LVA6IAWB7EF7YW7JA2OG15E0SYL0
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  • Story Text: Eight months after the Indian army stormed the Sikh Golden Temple to rout out militants, one of the temple's most prominent priests was shot in the Punjab town in Luhiana on January 16, marking the return of violence to the troubled northwest Indian state. Jathedar Giana Kirpal Singh was hot six time as he was sitting in his car. His chauffeur was also shot but both men survived the attack. The attempt on Kirpal Singh's life came as Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi promised a new initiative on the state following last month's election. Observers said the shooting of the priest, who was a moderate, may have been aimed at sabotaging the peace moves and as reprisal for his warning to Sikhs not to jeopardise peace talks. His attackers were identified as two Sikh men. The Press Trust of India news agency called the attack the "first major act of terrorism" since the storming of the temple. The shooting also came three months after the assassination of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. Although the state has been calmer in recent months, the Sikh's campaign for religious and political concessions has hit the economy of the farming state, which has traditionally been described as the wheat-bowl of India.
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