AMRITSAR: Security forces Thursday searched rooms of the Golden Temple, holiest Sikh shrine in this border town.
The police assisted by a posse of paramilitary personnel looked through a few rooms of the Guru Ram Das Serai.
Chief of the Amritsar police district Sanjeev Gupta said the search was conducted to check “specific information” about the presence of some suspected persons in the ‘serai’ rooms,
Intelligence sources said the raid was conducted following reports that some suspected persons were staying in a room of the Serai but they later were found to be security guards. Gupta said that no suspect was found the in search. But officials of the Shiromani Gurdwara Prabhandak Committee (SGPC) which runs Sikh temples in the country, said three persons were taken away from one of the rooms.
Gupta said the suspects might have slipped out of the rooms by the time the forces arrived there to conduct the search.
He said two other Series Guru Nanak Nivas and Akal Rest house were not searched.
SGPC secretary Manjit Singh Calcutta, reacting sharply to the police search, said neither he nor any other SGPC official was informed of the police action.
He said police manned all the entry and exit points of the Golden complex.
Article extracted from this publication >> August 31, 1990
