The World - News from April 9, 1989

Two Sikhs named as conspirators in a plot to assassinate Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and to destabilize India were arrested in Bombay, the United News of India reported. Dalip Singh, 55, and Jagmohan Singh Tony, 35, lecturers at Bombay colleges, were among five people formally charged with sedition and waging war against the country. Two others, Attinder Pal Singh and Simranjit Singh Mann, are in detention, and the fifth was charged posthumously. Gandhi was shot dead at her home in New Delhi on Oct. 31, 1984, by two Sikh bodyguards. A furor has been raised in recent weeks over the government’s reluctance to release all of a report implicating a senior aide to Gandhi in the assassination.