Panel to probe desecration inside Nabha jail

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Updated At : 12:25 PM Feb 26, 2020 IST

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Amritsar, February 25

Akal Takht Jathedar Giani Harpreet Singh has formed a five-member panel to look into the alleged case of sacrilege of ‘gutkas’ at Nabha jail.

Panel includes SGPC members Bhagwant Singh Sialka, Manjit Singh and Amarjit Singh Chawla, secretary Paramjit Singh Saroa and Gurdwara Bir Baba Budha Sahib head priest Giani Nishan Singh. The panel has been asked to submit the probe report to Akal Takht within five days.

A letter was also addressed to the Jathedar, wherein he was apprised that a Sikh prisoner, Man Singh, who had come for a hearing to Amritsar court on February 13, was handed over some sets of ‘gutkas’ and ‘pothis’ by the sangat present in the court. The jail security staff put the holy books on an almirah with no regard to their salience. — TNS

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