sacrilege

NIhang Sikhs claimed that sacrilege happened pointing towards Nishan Sahib and Palki Sahib being placed at the set. A symbolic 'Swaroop' of Sri Guru Granth Sahib was also placed on the set. Three Granthis participated in the shooting.

Police said Bakshish Singh allegedly torn few pages of Shri Guru Granth Sahib and tried to run away from the Gurdwara.

Senior police officers hurried to the scene, where the accused had barricaded himself inside the Chaura Khooh Gurudwara premises.

The nod came after the Special Investigation Team (SI), probing the case, filed a supplementary chargesheet in a local court along with the prosecution sanction order.

'If we had retaliated, things would have gone awry. We respected Guru Granth Sahib,' Senior Superintendent of Punjab Police Harpal Singh Randhawa said

Nihang Sikhs objected to presence of both idols of Hindu deities and the Guru Granth Sahib in Sindhi temples, and removed the idols

This stricter laws on blasphemy is only a sure shot way to increase and encourage lynchings and justify it by 'sacrilege' or 'blasphemy'.

A week after Dera Sacha Sauda adherent Pradeep Singh was shot dead by six assailants, Punjab Police made three arrests

Flowers were showered on Sandeep Singh, the suspected killer of Shiv Sena leader Sudhir Suri, outside the court.

In 2015, Pardeep Singh was one of the accused in the theft of a 'bir' (copy) of the Guru Granth Sahib in Faridkot. He was out on bail.