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Might have been. They do have a histroy of dressing up like "militants" and committing atrocities like this. Two independent investigations and a report in teh New York Times Magazine show that Indian government forces carried out the massacre of 35 Sikhs in Chithisinghpora three years ago this month. Witnesses overheard them speaking to each other in Hindi, not Punjabi or Urdu.

Indian troops were caught red-handed in the act of trying to burn down a Gurdwara and some Sikh homes in another village in Kashmir. The villagers, both Sikh and Muslim, overwhelmed the soldiers and seized their vehicle.

There have been numerous incidents of this type. Some human-rights activists believe that the attack on the Indian Parliament building, which killed only minorities and lower-caste individuals, may have been a crime of this type. "Fake encounters" are a well-known tactic of the Indian police. These are incidents in which the police kill some Sikh, Muslim, Christian, or other minority, then plant "evidence" and claim that the person was killed in an encounter with the police.

The State Department reported that the Indian government paid over 41,000 cash bounties to police officers to kill Sikhs. One such bounty was paid to a policeman who killed a three-year-old boy.