Justice Ranjit Singh submits final report on SACRILEGE CASES

CHANDIGARH: Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh has directed the state home department to take action in the sacrilege incidents of Guru Granth Sahib, Bhagwad Gita and Quran across the state based on the full report submitted by Justice (retd) Ranjit Singh on Thursday.

The Justice Ranjit Singh Commission on June 30 had submitted the first part of the sacrilege cases report to the chief minister. The report had dealt with the incidents of sacrilege at Burj Jawahar Singh Wala, Bargari, Gurusar and Mallke villages, as well as the firing incident in Behbal Kalan and Kotkapura.

The final report is in three parts, said an official spokesperson. Part-ii deals with incidents of sacrilege in SAS Nagar, Fatehgarh Sahib, Rupnagar and Patiala districts, while PART-III is on incidents in SBS Nagar (Nawanshahr) and Hoshiarpur.

Part-iv relates to sacrilege incidents in Amritsar, Bathinda, Barnala, Faridkot, Fazilka, Ferozepur, Gurdaspur, Jalandhar, Kapurthala, Ludhiana, Mansa, Moga, Sangrur, Sri Muktsar Sahib and Tarn Taran districts.

The complete set of reports, along with an ‘action taken report (ATR)', will be tabled in the next session of the Vidhan Sabha, as was already announced by the chief minister.

The chief minister asserted that those found guilty of trying to create religious disharmony in the state through such actions would be punished.

The commission was set up in April 2017 by the Congress government to investigate various incidents of sacrilege.

The Congress government had decided to constitute the panel after rejecting the findings of Zora Singh Commission, which was set up by the erstwhile SAD-BJP government, calling its as ‘inconclusive'.

The new commission was to conduct an enquiry into the cases of sacrilege of Guru Granth Sahib, Bhagwad Gita and Quran and enquire into the detailed facts and circumstance and chronology of events of what actually happened and to identify the role played by various persons into what happened, and also to enquire into the truth of what occurred in such incidents and factual role of the persons who may have been involved.