AMRITSAR: Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi has approved a modified security plan involving demolition of Par karma rooms to prevent militant Sikhs again taking over the Golden Temple, holiest shrine of the Sikh faith, senior Indian political sources.
They said the plank, costing an estimated 550 million rupees would involve the demolition of up to 700 properties around the temple in the city of Amritsar to Create an open area that could be more easily policed.
Article extracted from this publication >> May 28, 1993
