 Jaswant Singh Khalra was the director of a bank in the city of Amritsar in Punjab during the militancy.Following Operation Blue Star, the assassination of Indira Gandhi and the 1984 Anti-Sikh Riots, the police were empowered to detain suspects for any reason, ostensibly as suspected terrorists.The police were accused of killing unarmed suspects in staged shootouts and burning thousands of dead bodies to cover up the murders.