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The Punjab Police connected Sunday (December 7, 2025) registered an FIR successful Amritsar against 16 people, including SGPC’s erstwhile main secretary, successful transportation with the disappearance of 328 ‘saroops’ (sacred copies) of the Guru Granth Sahib successful 2020.
The FIR has been registered nether sections 295 (injuring oregon defiling a spot of worship oregon ineffable entity with intent to insult a religion), 295-A (deliberate and malicious acts intended to outrage spiritual feelings), 409 (criminal breach of trust), 465 (forgery) and 120-B (criminal conspiracy) of the Indian Penal Code astatine Division-C constabulary presumption successful Amritsar, according to an authoritative statement.
The accused included Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC)'s erstwhile main secretary, Roop Singh, and the ex-secretary of the Dharam Parchar Committee, Manjit Singh.
The others against whom the lawsuit has been registered are 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 substance of the missing 328 saroops of the Guru Granth Sahib from the SGPC’s work location successful Amritsar came to airy successful June 2020, starring to a large contention astatine the time.
It was alleged that it happened owed to "misappropriation" by the SGPC staff.
An enquiry was besides conducted by the Akal Takht-appointed sheet into the matter, and respective SGPC officials were recovered blameworthy of misconduct.
Meanwhile, Punjab Assembly Speaker Kultar Singh Sandhwan said that the State authorities volition not tolerate immoderate enactment of sacrilege. "Our authorities volition not spare anybody who volition perpetrate this benignant of heinous crime." “Guru Sahib ji has guided america to support each the religions crossed the globe,” helium said.
Singer Bhai Baldev Singh Vadala commended the State authorities for getting an FIR registered against those who allegedly committed sacrilege of 328 saroops of Guru Granth Sahib.
Meanwhile, SGPC president Harjinder Singh Dhami powerfully condemned the AAP authorities for what helium termed arsenic "open interference" successful Sikh institutions.
His remarks came successful effect to the government’s alleged engagement successful supporting definite groups staging a protestation related to the contented of missing ‘saroops’.
Mr. Dhami alleged that the information of authorities representatives successful this long-standing substance and their attempts to contented directions are wholly politically driven.
He asserted that the Punjab authorities indispensable wantonness the illusion that it tin tally Sikh institutions according to its ain wishes.
“Qaumi spiritual institutions beryllium solely to the Sikh community, and immoderate effort by the authorities to interfere volition not beryllium allowed to succeed,” helium said.
Mr. Dhami emphasized that the Sikh Panth knows good however to safeguard the dignity and traditions of its spiritual institutions.
The SGPC president stated that the contented of the 328 ineffable ‘saroops’, successful which the authorities is making the "grave mistake of intervening", is purely an SGPC administrative matter.
In a statement, Mr. Dhami said the Akal Takht Sahib itself had conducted an enquiry into the matter, and departmental enactment was taken arsenic per the findings and recommendations of that report.
The study intelligibly established that the lawsuit was not 1 of sacrilege, but alternatively a substance of fiscal misconduct by a fewer employees, the connection said.
He questioned the government’s governmental posture, saying that erstwhile each enactment has already been completed nether the directives of the Akal Takht— the ultimate authorization for the Sikh assemblage — the authorities has nary close to interfere oregon politicize the issue.
The SGPC president warned the authorities to instantly halt interfering successful Sikh affairs.
“If specified actions affecting the sanctity of Sikh institutions and gurdwaras are not halted, the Punjab authorities unsocial volition beryllium liable for the consequences,” helium said.
He besides appealed to the Jathedar of Akal Takht Sahib to instrumentality enactment of authorities interference successful matters that person already been resolved arsenic per Akal Takht’s decisions, truthful that the ‘Panthic’ traditions proceed to beryllium upheld.
