Beant Singh and Satwant Singh were Sikh bodyguards of then Prime Minister of India, Indira Gandhi, and on 31 October 1984 they assassinated her in her garden, putting thirty three bullets in her chest and abdomen. Kehar Singh, an Assistant in the Directorate General of Supply and Disposal, New Delhi, was tried and executed for conspiracy in the plot of the Indira Gandhi assassination, carried out by Satwant Singh and Beant Singh. He was hanged in Tihar Jail on January 6, 1989. Beant Singh was the nephew of Kehar Singh. The assassination was motivated by Operation Blue Star, by which Indian Armed Force personnel assaulted the Golden Temple Complex at Amritsar. It was carried out starting on 3 June 1984.
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