Indian Army denies deployment of air defence guns at Golden Temple | Latest News India

The Indian Army on Monday dismissed media reports claiming the deployment of air defence (AD) guns at the Golden Temple, saying that no AD guns or related resources were deployed within the premises of Sri Darbar Sahib in Amritsar.

Earlier, in an interview with the news agency ANI, Lieutenant General D’Cunha credited the head granthi, the chief priest of the holiest Sikh shrine worldwide, for enabling the army to deploy air defence guns within the Golden Temple premises.

He claimed that, for the first time in history, the Golden Temple’s lights were switched off to enhance the detection and engagement of drones coming from Pakistan.

“It was very nice that the head granthi of the Golden Temple allowed us to deploy our guns. It is possibly for the first time in many years that they switched off the Golden Temple lights so that we could see the drone coming,” Lt General D’Cunha said in the interview.

“Fortunately, we visualised what they (Pakistan) were capable of doing. Realising that they would target it because they had no legitimate targets across the border. They were more interested in creating confusion, chaos internally, and hence, we visualised that they would target our civil population and our religious places of worship,” D’Cunha said in the interview.

(This is a developing story. Check for more updates.)