CHANDIGARH: The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) today demanded a sitting judge of the high court monitor the probe into the recent cases of sacrilege even as it announced that it would hold a massive Panthic Rosh convention at Manji Sahib in the Sri Darbar Sahib complex at Amritsar on January 2 to protest against police inaction in the cases of sacrilege.

MULLANPUR(LUDHIANA): Drawing a parallel between the registration of an FIR against the SAD leader Bikram Singh Majithia and the bomb blast that rocked the Ludhiana city as well as the recent sacrilege incidents, the Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi on Thursday questioned as to why such a horrendous incident took place only after Majithia was cornered by the law.

CHANDIGARH: Aam Aadmi Party termed, the recent incident of sacrilege in the holy Harmandir Sahib in Amritsar and the violent repercussions that followed in the state, as a big political conspiracy. Addressing the media at the party headquarters on Wednesday, senior AAP leader and Leader of Opposition in Punjab Assembly Harpal Singh Cheema said, "Traditional parties are carrying out incidents of religious sacrilege since 2015 to spoil Punjab’s brotherhood."

JALALABAD (FEROZEPUR): Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) President Sukhbir Singh Badal today said the Congress government still wanted to play politics on the sensitive issue of sacrilege instead of bringing the perpetrators behind this heinous crime to book and this was why it had had not ordered a judicial inquiry into the recent incidents of sacrilege at Sri Harmandar Sahib.

CHANDIGARH: The Deputy Chief Minister, Punjab, Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa, who also holds the Home Portfolio, has urged the Union Government to give nod to The Code of Criminal Procedure (Punjab Amendment) Bill, 2018 and The Indian Penal Code (Punjab Amendment) Bill, 2018 in order to ensure stringent punishment to those perpetrating the heinous crime of sacrilege of holy books.

PHAGWARA: Kapurthala police today sent photos to all police stations in the country of the migrant labour who was lynched by irate mob on the charges of sacrilege incident in a religious place at village Nizampur on Kapurthala-Subhnapur road in order to establish his identity.

NEW DELHI: Condemning the incident of sacrilege at Golden Temple, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) on Sunday said that it is a conspiracy to create unrest in society and asked for unmasking of conspirators behind the incident.

TARN TARAN: The Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi on Sunday strongly condemned the incidents of sacrilege at Golden Temple Amritsar and Kapurthala and said that the Punjab government would ensure that the perpetrators of such heinous crimes are not only identified but also face the law of land. He said that no one would be allowed to disturb the hard earned peace and communal harmony of the state.

AMRITSAR: Expressing deep anguish over the unfortunate incident to attempt sacrilege of Sri Guru Granth Sahib in the sanctum-sanctorum of Sri Darbar Sahib last evening, Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi reiterated his Government’s firm commitment to thoroughly probe into the entire matter to get into the bottom of the case to unmask the real conspirators behind this distortedly act.

KAPURTHALA:An unidentified clean shaven person (22)appears to be an migrant labour was lynched to death by the furious mob on the sacrilege incident at Gurdwara Nizampur on Kapurthala-Subhnapur road here in the early hours of this morning.

AMRITSAR: Former Punjab CM Parkash Singh Badal today described the heinous attempt to commit sacrilege at Sachkhand Shri Harmandar Sahib as "deeply shocking and exceedingly painful".

AMRITSAR: Terming the sacrilege incident at Sri Darbar Sahib a most unfortunate, Punjab Deputy Chief Minister Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa on Sunday said that a Special Investigation Team under DCP Law & Order had been constituted, which would present investigation report within two-days.

CHANDIGARH: Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Channi on Saturday strongly condemned the 'most unfortunate' and 'heinous' act of attempting sacrilege of Sri Guru Granth Sahib in the sanctum sanctorum of Golden Temple in Amritsar during the 'path' of Sri Rehras Sahib.

AMRITSAR: Shiromani Akali Dal president Sukhbir SIngh Badal today expressed " shock and disbelief at the most heinous outrage of the attempt to commit sacrilege at our highest and the holiest shrine Sachkhand Shri Harmandar Sahib."

AMRITSAR: Former Punjab CM Parkash Singh Badal today described the heinous attempt to commit sacrilege at Sachkhand Shri Harmandar Sahib as "deeply shocking and exceedingly painful".

CHANDIGARH:BJP national general secretary Tarun Chugh today questioned the silence of Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee president Navjot Sidhu over the incident of sacrilege of Guru Granth Sahib in Pakistan.

KOTKAPURA: Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi on Tuesday squarely blamed Badals for the sacrilege incidents in Bargari and consequent firing incidents in Behbal Kalan and Kotkapura.

SRI CHAMKAUR SAHIB/CHANDIGARH:Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi on Saturday said that action would be taken against all the guilty responsible for the sacrilege of Sri Guru Granth Sahib as the investigations of SIT are already on the fast and right track.

CHANDIGARH:Official spokesperson of Punjab Police on Wednesday trashed and termed all the allegations about giving clean chit to Dera Sacha Sauda Head Gurmeet Ram Rahim as bogus and baseless.

CHAMKAUR SAHIB: With an aim to bring government at the doorsteps of common man and provide justice to poor, the Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi on Monday visited his constituency and paid rich tributes to elder Sahibzadas of Sri Guru Gobind Singh Ji at Gurudwara Sri Katalgarh Sahib here.

CHANDIGARH/CHAMKAUR SAHIB(Roopnagar):With an aim to bring government at the doorsteps of common man and provide justice to poor, the Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi on Monday visited his constituency and paid rich tributes to elder Sahibzadas of Sri Guru Gobind Singh Ji at Gurudwara Sri Katalgarh Sahib.

AMRITSAR: Giani Harpreet Singh Jathedar Akal Takht has strongly condemned the unfortunate incident at Takht Kesgarh Sahib, Anandpur Sahib
Speaking to reporters, Giani Harpreet Singh said the incident.

AMRITSAR: Giani Harpreet Singh said that those who insulted Guru Granth Sahib will not be spared at any cost. He said that no politics should be played on this issue but mobilized to get the accused severely punished.

 CHANDIGARH: Asserting that the investigations in the cases of sacrilege of Sri Guru Granth Sahib were moving fast in the right direction, Special Investigation Team (SIT) Chief SPS Parmar has denied a clean chit to Dera head Gurmeet Ram Rahim or anyone else, rejecting claims to the contrary as malicious social media propaganda.

 CHANDIGARH: The Special Investigation Team (SIT) constituted to investigate sacrilege cases on Friday filed the first challan in a case of desecration of Sri Guru Granth Sahib before the court of JMIC Faridkot.

CHANDIGARH: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal today promised to punish the guilty of sacrilege of Guru Granth Sahib. He said that Congress and Akali Dal leaders are hand in glove and they would never allow law to take its course to catch the culprits.

CHANDIGARH: The Badal family-Parkash Singh Badal and his sn Sukhbir Singh Badal-are caught on wrong foot 0n the issue of series of sacrilege of Guru Granth Sahib in Punjab and police action on protesting Sikhs in Kotkapura and Bargari where two Sikhs were killed in police firing. The Justice Ranjit Singh commission report has nailed Badal family members on their involvement in ghasty incidents.

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JALANDHAR: Police has arrested Gurjeet Singh a Granthi (Sikh preacher) who allegedly torn a Gutka at Adampur on Sunday. Few torn pages of 'Gutka' (Holy Book) were spotted at Adampur today by the residents of the area lying on the bank of canal they immediately informed the police about the unwanted act.

CHANDIGARH: In a first veiled attack directly aimed at Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh, his former Cabinet colleague and Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu on Friday questioned him for 'evading' responsibility as the Home Minister during the 2015 sacrilege case.

CHANDIGARH: Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Wednesday trashed as baseless and politically motivated the unwarranted allegations against Advocate General Atul Nanda, as well as the legal team that defended the Kotkapura firing incident probe.

CHANDIGARH:Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Thursday said the SIT probing the sacrilege cases would soon complete its investigation and he will not interfere if they decide to challan any senior police officers or politicians.

NEW DELHI: Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Delhi MLA Naresh Yadav, who was named one of the accused in a Quran Sharif sacrilege case in Punjab's Malerkotla, was acquitted by the Sangrur district court on Tuesday.

CHANDIGARH: The CBI has finally handed over to the Punjab Police papers relating to the sacrilege cases, which Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Thursday said "clearly exposed" that the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) had been scuttling the process "to prevent their complicity in the cases from being exposed".

CHANDIGARH: Within months of the Akalis walking out of the Union Government, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Wednesday finally handed to the state police papers relating to the sacrilege cases, which Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh said clearly exposed that the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) had been scuttling the process to prevent their complicity in the cases from being exposed.

CHANDIGARH: Vindicating the Punjab government’s stance on the investigations into the 2015 sacrilege incidents, the Punjab and Haryana High Court has directed the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to hand over all case diaries and papers related to the cases to the Punjab Police within a month.

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Wednesday declined to transfer the 2015 Bathinda Guru Granth Sahib sacrilege case trial outside Punjab.

CHANDIGARH: Punjab chief minister Capt Amarinder Singh on Tuesday slammed the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) over its tactics to obstruct the state government’s investigation into the Bargari sacrilege case with its false statements in the High Court, which had, in fact, verbally termed the agency’s actions as `contemptuous’.

CHANDIGARH: An unfortunate incident of sacrilege was reported around 7 pm on 2.11.20 when one Sewa Singh, an 18 year old resident of Suttantar Nagar, Ludhiana, informed Baldev Singh, President of Suttantar Nagar Gurudwara that some torn angs of Sri Guru Granth Sahib had been found scattered in a Paddy field in Prem Vihar, Jan Shakti Nagar area of Police Station Tibba, Ludhiana. On receiving this information, police party immediately responded and reached the spot, and FIR no.178 u/s 295-A, 34 IPC was registered on statement of Baldev Singh, President of Singh Sabha Gurudwara, Suttantar Nagar, Ludhiana.

CHANDIGARH: : Punjab police have arrested a person who was caught on the spot by villagers committing sacrilege of Sri Guru Granth Sahib ji in village Tarkhan Majra, Fatehgarh Sahib district.

AMRITSAR: Reacting on the missing of 328 sacred birs of Guru Granth Sahib, the Dal Khalsa today lashed out at the SGPC blaming the institution for committing sacrilege. The organization asserted that the need of the hour is to overhaul and rescue it from the wrong hands.

CHANDIGARH: Asserting that the probe by the Punjab police into cases of sacrilege of Guru Granth Sahib would be taken to the logical conclusion, half a dozen Punjab Government Ministers today underlined that the Narendra Modi government now could not revive political fortunes of Akali Dal president Sukhbir Singh Badal and his family by using the CBI to block this investigation.

CHANDIGARH:Senior Congress leader and Cabinet Minister Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa today lashed out at Akali Dal, directly responsible for the heinous crime of desecration of Sri Guru Granth Sahib and firing on innocent Sikhs, for conniving with its political ally BJP to shield the culprits through Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).

CHANDIGARH:Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Tuesday met families of the victims of the Behbal Kalan incident, and promised that investigation into the case would be taken to its logical conclusion and those found guilty would be punished.

CHANDIGARH: Disclosing that the Supreme Court had vindicated the state government’s stand by rejecting the CBI plea seeking permission to probe the cases, Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Thursday assured the Assembly that the SIT investigation into the Behbal Kalan and Bargari cases would be taken to its logical conclusion.

MOHALI: A CBI court here on Saturday upheld Punjab’s right to the closure report in the Bargari sacrilege cases, finding “sufficient reason” to its satisfaction to supply a certified copy of the report, along with all the attached documents, to the state.

CHANDIGARH: Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Wednesday took on Congress MP Partap Singh Bajwa for joining hands with the Opposition in attacking his own party’s government on the sensitive Bargari issue on the basis of a totally misleading and biased newspaper headline.

CHANDIGARH: Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Tuesday made it clear that he had not given a clean chit to Badals over their alleged involvement in the sacrilege case, which was more than manifest in their hobnobbings with Dera Sacha Sauda ahead of Bargari and their recent desperate attempts to scuttle the probe by influencing the closure report of the CBI.

CHANDIGARH: Terming the CBI move as politically motivated and an attempt to scuttle the state government’s efforts to take the sacrilege cases to their logical conclusion, Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Monday asked the Advocate General to legally oppose the CBI plea for keeping its Bargari closure report in abeyance.

CHANDIGARH: H.S.Phoolka senior Supreme Court lawyer and former  MLA from Dakha has declared that he would not contest any election in future. His resignation, given last, was accepted by the Speaker Punjab Vidhan Sabha few days back.

CHANDIGARH: Sukhpal Singh Khaira Bholath MLA and president of Punjab Ekta Party(PEP) today  questioned  Punjab Chief Minister for playing dubious role in cases of sacrilege of Guru Granth Sahib and asking CBI to reopen the cases .

CHANDIGARH: The Shiromani Akali Dal on Friday said the latest revelations from the Election Commission that the state government had gone to the extent of disobeying its orders to retain Inspector General (IG) Kunwar Vijay Pratap as member of a team probing sacrilege cases was proof of the politicisation.

CHANDIGARH: Sukhpal Singh Khaira Bholath MLA and President of Punjab Ekta Party(PEP) today alleged that Central Bureau Investigation(CBI) has filed closure report in the Mohali CBI court in two cases of sacrilege registered against dera sacha sauda followers under pressure from BJP and Shiromani Akali Dal(SAD).

CHANDIGARH: Mohinderpal Singh alias Bittu, the main accused in the Bargari sacrilege case and follower of dera Sacha Sauda was today murdered in Nabha high security jail by two inmates facing murder charges. Punjab Chief Minsiter Capt Amarinder Singh has ordered probe into his murder and also asked DGP to beef up security in the state.

CHANDIGARH: The Badal family-Parkash Singh Badal and his sn Sukhbir Singh Badal-are caught on wrong foot 0n the issue of series of sacrilege of Guru Granth Sahib in Punjab and police action on protesting Sikhs in Kotkapura and Bargari where two Sikhs were killed in police firing. The Justice Ranjit Singh commission report has nailed Badal family members on their involvement in ghasty incidents.

Punjab News Express/ S.K.Vyas
JALANDHAR: Police has arrested Gurjeet Singh a Granthi (Sikh preacher) who allegedly torn a Gutka at Adampur on Sunday. Few torn pages of 'Gutka' (Holy Book) were spotted at Adampur today by the residents of the area lying on the bank of canal they immediately informed the police about the unwanted act.