CHANDIGARH, December 7:
In a significant step towards addressing a deep wound in the Sikh religious conscience and fulfilling a long-pending demand for justice, the Amritsar Commissionerate Police has registered a First Information Report (FIR) against sixteen individuals in connection with the missing of 328 ‘Saroops’ (holy scriptures) of Sri Guru Granth Sahib ji.
In this regard, Punjab Vidhan Sabha Speaker S. Kultar Singh Sandhwan said that Punjab Government will not tolerate sacrilege of any religion and our government will not spare anybody who will commit this type of heinous crime. Guru Sahib ji has guided us to protect all the religion across the globe, he said.
Bhai Baldev Singh Vadala commended the Punjab Government for getting a first information report (FIR) registered against the culprits who committed sacrilege of 328 Pawan “Saroops” of Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji. He urged Speaker S. Kultar Singh Sandhwan to pass law in Punjab Vidhan Sabha to ensure Capital punishment who commits this type of sacrilege so that no one could dare to commit such crime in future and set a strong example for society.
Those booked have been identified as Dr Roop Singh, Manjit Singh, Gurbachan Singh, Satinder Singh, Nishan Singh, Paramjit Singh, Gurmukh Singh, Jujhar Singh, Baaj Singh, Dalbir Singh, Kamaljit Singh, Kulwant Singh, Jaspreet Singh, Gurbachan Singh, Satinder Singh and Amarjit Singh.
The FIR has been registered under sections 295 (injuring or defiling a place of worship or sacred object with intent to insult a religion), 295-A (deliberate and malicious acts intended to outrage religious feelings), 409 (criminal breach of trust), 465 (forgery) and 120-B (criminal conspiracy) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) at Police Station Division-C Amritsar Commissionerate.
The development follows a prolonged inquiry into mismanagement and record-keeping discrepancies at the Sri Guru Granth Sahib Bhawan, the publishing house of the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) in Amritsar.
