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The Man Who Saw Bhindranwale Dead: Col Gurinder Singh Ghuman
Asit Jolly  June 15, 2012 | UPDATED 15:45 IST  "Jarnail Singh
Bhindranwale had a clear bullet on the left side of his
forehead. There was a second, visible injury, a fracture, on his
right shin. His leg dangled at an impossible angle," says a
former Indian Army officer who walked into Amritsar's Golden
Temple Complex on the morning of June 6, 1984. Then a young
major deployed with the armoured brigade at Amritsar, Col
Gurinder Singh Ghuman, 60, vividly remembers seeing the lifeless
body of the man who had inspired thousands of Sikhs in
challenging the might of the Indian state through deadly and
armed resistance just hours earlier. "He lay just inside the
Clock Tower Entrance on a large slab of ice," the officer
recalls. On the white marble floor besides Bhindranwale lay his
two most trusted lieutenants-the All India Sikh St