Opinion January 4, 1984, Forty Years Ago: Assailant Arrested
Sukhdev Singh, arrested following the robbery and shootout in Connaught Place, is a deserter from the army. He was enlisted as a jawan in 1977 and he left in 1981.
He is reported to have told the police that he received further training in the use of arms and commando methods at the Guru Ram Das Sarai in the Golden Temple complex.
Sukhdev Singh, arrested following the robbery and shootout in Connaught Place, is a deserter from the army. He was enlisted as a jawan in 1977 and he left in 1981. He is reported to have told the police that he received further training in the use of arms and commando methods at the Guru Ram Das Sarai in the Golden Temple complex.
Role Of Science
Prime Minister Indira Gandhi declared that science “must permeate the whole of our national life, all areas of endeavour and all regions”. Inaugurating the 71st session of the Indian Science Congress at the Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, Mrs Gandhi said that otherwise it would only accentuate disparities within the country, as it “had done between nations over the past two centuries.”
Israel’s Attack
Four Israeli warplanes bombed and set ablaze a Palestinian guerrilla base and an ammunition depot in a retaliatory strike south-east of Beirut drawing intense ground fire from the Syrian-held area. In the capital, a lone motorcycle gunman shot and seriously wounded the French consul’s driver in the Mreisseh waterfront residential neighbourhood. Beirut Radio said in a retraction of its earlier report that the driver was killed.
No President’s Rule
The Election Commission has decided not to pursue its recent recommendation for imposition of the President’s rule in states before holding assembly elections. The Chief Election Commissioner, R K Trivedi, told UNI that the recommendation had created a lot of confusion among political parties. He regretted that the suggestion had been read in the context of centre-state relations and the recent assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir.
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