It was her order to the Indian Army in 1984 to attack armed militants in the Sikhs' sacred Golden Temple in Amritsar, resulting in 800 dead, that led to her assassination in Delhi five months later by two Sikh members of her security guards.
She was killed in Delhi by two of her security guards, both Sikh, five months after her order to the Indian Army to attack militants in the Sikhs' sacred Golden Temple.