Two more people have been arrested in connection with a London attack on the Indian military leader of the contentious 1984 Amritsar Golden Temple assault, British police said Thursday.
Retired lieutenant general Kuldip Singh Brar, 78, was attacked in a street near one of London’s main shopping areas, Oxford Street, on September 30.
A 36-year-old man was arrested in west London on Wednesday on suspicion of conspiracy to murder and inflicting grievous bodily harm with intent. He is in custody at a central London police station.
A 55-year-old woman was arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender. She has been bailed to return at a future date pending further inquiries.
Last month two men were charged with wounding with intent to do grievous bodily harm.
Brar commanded Operation Blue Star, ordered by then-prime minister Indira Gandhi to flush out militants holed up in Sikhdom’s holiest shrine demanding an independent Sikh homeland.
Four months afterwards, Gandhi was assassinated by two Sikh bodyguards in retaliation.
That triggered anti-Sikh riots in which thousands of people were killed, most of them in the streets of the Indian capital New Delhi.
Two more arrested over London attack on Amritsar commander
