RTI query for cases against Bhindranwale

New Delhi, March 30: How Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale has been described in government records — religious preacher, criminal, terrorist or other, the CIC has asked the home ministry to send this RTI query to the Punjab government for providing reply.

It was one of the questions posed by an RTI applicant who had also sought to know from the home ministry the number of FIRs pending against Bhindranwale, alleged to be the mascot of the Khalistan movement in which thousands of people were killed, when he was killed by security forces in operation Blue Star in 1984.

I n f o r m a t i o n C o m m i s s i o n e r Yashovardhan Azad said law and order being a state subject, the information regarding cases registered against Jarnail Singh Bhindrawale must be held by government of Punjab.