There is still another aspect of the Operation Bluestar whether this Operation can be sustained on legal grounds, if not, whether those who were interested in their place of worship, had the right to defend it against an attack.

There were other victims of Operation Bluestar little children, some only two years old, who got rounded up when the army swept through the Punjab countryside throwing over 18,000 suspected terrorists into jail. Since then, 39 children have been languishing in two Ludhiana jails.

On the morning or June 1, the briefing hall of Headquarters 2 Corps of Indian Army was brimming with excitement. The western army commander Lt-General K. Sunderji and his chief of staff Lt-General Ranjit Singh Dayal were briefing a stunned audience of brass hats on the Operation Bluestar plan. It is known that the operation was subdivided along two specific co-ordinates.