CHANDIGARH: 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.
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.