SGPC chief Avtar Singh Makkar, who had constituted a three-member team to look into the matter, said various anomalies in installation of Dwyer’s portrait in the museum have come to light. “The introduction written along with the picture was misleading and even defamatory. No one ever objected to it. It was written that Dwyer was murdered by one Udham Singh and there is no mention who Dwyer was and for what reasons he was shot dead,” said Makkar, adding that they would re-install the portrait and correct the discrepancies.

“Now the proper phrases would be used and visitors to the Museum would be fully informed about Dwyer’s involvement in the 1919 massacre that shook the conscience of India and gave a new lead to the freedom struggle,” he said. He said the SGPC was discussing the matter at the highest level and Dwyer’s and Udham Singh’s pictures would be placed side by side and while the Dwyer would be rightfully posed as villain, Singh would be eulogised for his role of taking revenge on Dwyer.

It is to be noted that Dwyer was Lt General of Punjab when the Jallianwala Bagh massacre took place on April 13, 1919. Brigadier General Reginald Edward Harry Dyer, who is often confused with Dwyer, had actually ordered the killing. Dwyer had justified the killing and he was shot dead at Caxton Hall in London on March 13, 1940, 21 years after the massacre.