NEW DELHI Police officials ruled out a foreign conspiracy Monday in the assassination of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi by formally accusing four Sikhs of hatching the plot after being inspired by the flight of a hawk.
A 20 page charge sheet signed by Deputy Police Commissioner Des Raj set in motion by the chance flight of a hawk to Gandhi’s residence last September that the conspirators took as a good omen.
The document, which contained the most detailed report on the assassination yet issued by investigators completed their plan only a day before the slaying.
Gandhi was shot to death by two Sikh bodyguards as she walked from her home last Oct 31. Her son, Rajiv Gandhi, was sworn in as Prime Minister Hours later.
Militant members of the Sikh religion had called for Gandhi’s ouster for ordering the army to invade the religion’s holiest shrine, the Golden Temple in Amritsar, June 6 to evict militants fighting for an autonomous homeland in the northern state of Punjab.
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