Lieutenant General Kuldip Singh Brar, PVSM, AVSM, VrC (born 1934) is a retired Indian Army officer, who was involved in the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971.

During the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971, Brar commanded an infantry battalion and was in the first batch of troops who entered Dhaka (now the capital of Bangladesh) on the morning of 16 December 1971.

[11] In the years following the 1971 war, Brar was involved in anti-insurgency operations in Nagaland and Mizoram states of India.

[7] In 1984, Indira Gandhi, the Prime Minister of India, decided to deploy the army to flush Sangat along with Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale and his associates out of the Golden Temple at Amritsar complex.

K S Brar, was also a part of the team under the direction of Lt. General Krishnaswamy Sundarji (then chief of western army command) and Lt. General Ranjit Singh Dyal (then chief of staff in the command), who planned this operation codenamed Operation Blue Star.

His former superior, retired Major General Shabeg Singh, who led the militants, saw him making rounds, and knew that he was up to something.

[citation needed] In the afternoon of 5 June, the army kept asking the militants to surrender, using the public address system.

[13] When asked about why the army entered the temple premises just after Guru Arjan Dev's martyrdom day (when the number of devotees is much higher), General Brar said that it was just a coincidence.

[13] General Brar talked to his men (many of whom were Sikhs) personally on the morning on 5 June 1984, and told them what they planned to do and why they were doing it.

In fact, in the unit commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Mohammad Israr (whose ten guards later led the first unit into the temple premises), the Sikh Officer Second Lieutenant Jasbir Singh Raina, raised his hand, and said that he wished to be the first one to enter the Golden Temple to wipe out the militants who had defiled the holiest Sikh shrine.

General Brar later said in an interview that Bhindranwale and his immediate accomplices had shifted to the first floor of the Akal Takht, and this was against the tenets of Sikhism, since no one is allowed to stay above the Guru Granth Sahib.

[18] On 4 October, Scotland Yard announced that they had arrested three people, not publicly identified at the time, for the attack, and were continuing to look for the fourth.

[21] On 8 October, two of the men involved, Barjinder Singh Sangha (born 25 March 1979; aged 33) of Wolverhampton, and Mandeep Singh Sandhu (born 30 April 1978; aged 34)[22] of Great Barr, Birmingham, were charged with wounding with intent to do grievous bodily harm on the retired general.

[23] In court, the two men wore identical grey T-shirts, large, flowing beards and navy blue and black turbans.

She was formally accused of wounding with intent to do grievous bodily harm and was scheduled to later appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court.

[26] On 2 April, a Metropolitan Police spokesperson said Sangha, Sandhu, Dilbagh Singh, and Kaur would stand trial around 15 July.

[27] At the trial, which opened at Southwark Crown Court on 15 July, Kaur also denied the charge of wounding with intent to do grievous bodily harm.

During the trial, it was disclosed that when the defendants discovered General Brar was holidaying in London without any security, they scoped out his movements over two days.

[29] On 31 July, Sandhu, Dilbagh Singh, and Kaur were convicted of wounding with intent; Sangha had pleaded guilty to the charge earlier.

Your question about KPS Gill's success in Operation Black Thunder can be answered in one sentence – There was no Bindranwale, they had no leadership worth its name, there was no Gen Shabeg Singh, nor were there any fortifications.

I am not trying to belittle Mr Gill, he is a fine policeman, but we must realise that the circumstances were totally different, and it is not fair to compare the two operations.General Brar accepted that Operation Blue Star had hurt the sentiments of many Sikhs, including those who opposed the pro-Khalistan militants.