In April 26, 2004, the Punjab and Haryana High Court ordered the Central Government, Government of Punjab, and the CBI to return the "valuables, books, scriptures, paintings, etc, that were seized from the Golden Temple during “Operation Bluestar” in 1984".
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By using witness accounts, the SGPC has alleged that material from the library was taken in gunny sacks on military truck to Amritsar's Youth Club, a temporary office of the Central Bureau of Investigation, and the empty library was burned by the army afterwards.
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Since 1988, the SGPC has written to the Central Government asking for the return of the material taken by the CBI but has only received minor office files.
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On May 23, 2000 George Fernandes wrote to the SGPC Secretary, Gurbachan Singh Bachan, and acknowledged that the Indian Army had taken taken the books and other documents from the Sikh Reference Library and handed them over to the CBI.
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In 2003, Ranjit Nanda, a former inspector for the CBI, turned whistleblower and revealed he was part of a five member team which scrutinized the documents at the CBI's makeshift office at Amritsar's Youth Club.
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