MUMBAI: In a fright at the well-known location where a violent conflict between Sikhs and troops occurred forty years ago, a gunman shot at a well-known Sikh lawmaker outside the Golden Temple in northern India on Wednesday before being apprehended and taken into custody by police.
Sukhbir Singh Badal, a politician and former deputy chief minister of Punjab state, was unharmed.
In TV footage from news agency ANI, the shooter—who police have identified as Narain Singh, 68—was seen making his way to the entrance of the temple in Amritsar, the Sikhs’ holiest site, and then slyly taking a revolver out of his pocket to kill Badal.
A plainclothes police officer standing next to Badal stopped him and pushed him away.
