The Sikh community was outraged at what they saw as a degradation of the sacred temple, and India's then-prime leader, Indira Gandhi, was assassinated by her Sikh bodyguards later that year. Anti-Sikh riots erupted in the aftermath of the killing, with 3,000 people dead, many of them on the streets of New Delhi. The Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) launched a Rs 1,000 crore damages case in 1985 about Operation Bluestar. The lawsuit has been lingering for some time, and now the highest Sikh religious organization is prepared to commence discussions with the Union government for an out-of-court solution, as per the court's ruling.

The SGPC, through its then-president Gurcharan Singh Tohra, filed the complaint at the Delhi high court. The Prime Minister would be contacted first, according to Bhagwant Singh Sialka, a lawyer and the SGPC's general secretary, because he is the authority responsible as the state's executive leader. It was agreed to write Prime Minister Narendra Modi a letter on the subject shortly after the military action's anniversary. Harjinder Singh Dhami, honorary chief secretary of the SGPC, claimed the supreme Sikh organization has already spent ten crores in legal expenses in the matter. As a result, we want the issue to be resolved and will begin legal actions after June 6. Due to the military activity that took place in the vicinity, several more structures have bullet holes. In this case, they have been maintained as evidence.