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Army finally hands over Amritsar's Gobindgarh fort |
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Amritsar's Gobindgarh Fort, built in 1760 and associated with the Sikh warrior king Maharaja Ranjit Singh, was on Oct 6 formally handed over by the army authorities to the civil administration in Amritsar.
The fort was in the Army's possession from the British times for nearly 150 years.
The British authorities had put the fort under the army possession in 1849. The fort had been named after the 10th Sikh guru, Guru Gobind Singh, by Maharaja Ranjit Singh.
Though Prime Minister Manmohan Singh ...
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