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The Amritsar-New Delhi Swarn Shatabdi was stopped by protesters at the Ludhiana railway station on Friday morning. The protestors want justice for the victims of the 1984 anti-Sikh riots.
According to police officials, the train had around 600 Delhi passengers. The train, which left Amritsar station early Friday, was stranded at the Ludhiana station. Police and railway officials were trying to persuade the protesters to lift the blockade and allow the train to proceed.
The anti-Sikh riots had claimed lives of over 3,000 Sikhs in Delhi and other places across India that broke out following the assassination of then prime minister Indira Gandhi by her two Sikh bodyguards on Oct 31, 1984.
Sikh organisations have lamented that even 25 years after the carnage, the guilty have not been punished.
