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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