Brar attack: 1 of 3 accused pleads guilty
The trial for the attack on Lt. Gen. Kuldip Singh Brar (Retd.) will start on April 2 as one of the three accused pleaded guilty at the pre-trial plea and case management hearing at the Southwark crown court in London on Friday.
Thirty-three-year-old Barjinder Singh Sangha, from Wolverhampton, pleaded guilty to “wounding” Lt. Gen. Brar “with intent to do grievous bodily harm” in an attack at Old Quebec Street, London, on September 30, 2012.
Sangha, who was also charged by Scotland Yard with assaulting Lt. Gen. Brar’s wife Meena by beating, however, not guilty on that charge.
Lt. Gen. Brar was attacked in London by a group of four unidentified men on September 30. The Met police made 19 arrests as part of its investigation into the attack on Gen. Brar. However, only three were charged for attacking the 78-year-old general, who led the controversial Operation Bluestar in Amritsar in 1984.
Lt. Gen. Brar, who has faced numerous death threats since commanding the controversial Operation Bluestar, had described the attack on him and his wife by four men as an assassination attempt by Khalistan-linked extremists.
The other two accused — 34-year-old Mandeep Singh Sandhu from Birmingham and 36-year-old Dilbag Singh, of no fixed abode — however, entered no guilty pleas in the court.
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