Saturday, July 11, 2020

Sewa Singh Sekhwan :SGPC Members Rejects Panel to Probe Missing Birs



Amritsar: Former Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) leader , who is SGPC member from Gurdaspur, has asked Akal Takht acting jathedar Giani Harpreet Singh to get the incident of 267 saroops of Guru Granth Sahib going missing from an SGPC-run gurdwara probed by a retired judge of the Punjab and Haryana high court.


Sekhwan told TOI on Friday that he along with other SGPC members, including Kiranjot Kaur (Amritsar West), Harpreet Singh Garcha (Pakhowal, Ludhiana), Amrik Singh (Shahpur, Dera Baba Nanak) and Mohinder Singh Hussainpur (Balachaur, Nawanshahr), had submitted a memorandum to the jathedar, seeking his intervention to dislodge the SGPC constituted sub-committee to investigate the issue and get the inquiry done by a person with indepth knowledge of Sikh affairs. “We have urged him to get the inquiry done by a gursikh retired judge of the high court,” he said.


On June 26, the Punjab Human Rights Organisation (PHRO) had sought an inquiry from the SGPC into the incident. PHRO had claimed that 80 of the 267 saroops of Guru Granth Sahib, damaged in fire and rain, were later cremated clandestinely.

Lok Insaaf Party MLA Balwinder Singh Bains also lodged a complaint with the Amritsar police commissioner, seeking police investigation into the incident. Sekhwan said, “How can we expect an impartial inquiry by the members by the sub-committee in whose tenure, between 2016 and 2020, the incident had happened?”


Dr.Gurdeep Kaur
Associate Professor
Sri Guru Nanak Dev Khalsa College
University of Delhi

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