Akal Takht gives clean chit to Sartaaj

Tribune News Service

Amritsar, May 14

Akal Takht has given clean chit to Sufi singer Satinder Sartaaj, who was accused of making mistakes while reciting Zafarnamah in the Persian dialect.

A few weeks after the Persian version of “Zafarnamah – Guru Gobind Singh Ji” was released, a Delhi resident submitted a complaint to Akal Takht accusing the singer mispronouncing some words.

Subsequently, Akal Takht officiating Jathedar Giani Harpreet Singh deputed Gurpreet Singh Udhoke, a researcher, to look into the matter. Udhoke was found that Sartaaj had made any mistake while reciting the Zafarnamah, barring an ignorable mistake of misspelling a word in the subtitles.

The singer shared a video of Giani Harpreet Singh on social media, in which the latter could be heard saying that the accusation of wrong pronunciation was baseless.