34 years of Operation Blue Star | IN PICS

Senior army officers at the site of the military operation. Operation Blue Star was a military operation ordered by Indira Gandhi, the then Prime Minister, to remove Sikh separatists who were amassing weapons in the Golden Temple in Amritsar in 1984.

Soldiers take positions outside the premises of the Golden Temple.

A soldier takes aim from a building adjacent to the Golden Temple.

Army men take positions from a building adjoining the Golden Temple.

Soldiers can be seen firing at suspects during the operation.

A close-up of a soldier fighting off suspects.

Soldiers were positioned at every possible place and the premises was completely cordoned off.

Devotees at the temple after the operation was over.

Bystanders look at the ruins in the temple premises after the military operation was over.

Suspected Sikh militants are rounded up.

Another set of soldiers take a up a strategic position during the operation.

Repairs begin at the Golden Temple after the operation.