Punjab Religious Sacrilege

A nine-year-old boy was apprehended on Friday on the charge of desecrating a religious text in a village here, police said.

Navjot Singh Sidhu today targeted AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal over the 2015 sacrilege issue, asking who was stopping his party's government in the state from taking action against those involved in the desecration of religious text.

Amarinder Singh - the former Punjab Chief Minister - is the first major political leader to condemn the vigilante killing of two men over claims of religious sacrilege at the Golden Temple in Amritsar and a gurdwara in Kapurthala.

The mob killing of two men accused of desecrating Sikh religious sentiments in Punjab were not "simple incidents" and "not a matter of mere condemnation", Harjinder Singh Dhami, the head of the SGPC, told NDTV.

Amid the deafening silence of Punjab's political faces over the two lynchings after alleged sacrilege attempts, state Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu has demanded public execution for those accused of desecrating religious texts.

The desecration of a Sikh religious text in Punjab's Faridkot in 2015, and subsequent police firing that killed two people, is one of the issues driving the feud between ex-Chief Minister Amarinder Singh and Navjot Sidhu.

Six people have been arrested by the SIT probing the incidents of the desecration of a religious text in Punjab's Faridkot in 2015, an official said on Saturday.

An order of the local administration in Punjab's Muktsar -- asking religious places to announce home delivery of liquor on their loudspeakers -- set off a huge row today as the opposition Akali Dal termed it "sacrilege". In the evening, the administration said it was an "inadvertent error" which was rectified.

The Punjab Cabinet on Tuesday decided to bring an amendment to Indian Penal Code (IPC) to make sacrilege of all religious text punishable with life imprisonment.

Punjab police will summon AAP lawmaker Naresh Yadav for questioning in connection with the alleged sacrilege incident in Malerkotla on June 24 after one of accused claimed that he had acted at the behest of the legislator.

A nine-year-old boy was apprehended on Friday on the charge of desecrating a religious text in a village here, police said.

Navjot Singh Sidhu today targeted AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal over the 2015 sacrilege issue, asking who was stopping his party's government in the state from taking action against those involved in the desecration of religious text.

Amarinder Singh - the former Punjab Chief Minister - is the first major political leader to condemn the vigilante killing of two men over claims of religious sacrilege at the Golden Temple in Amritsar and a gurdwara in Kapurthala.

The mob killing of two men accused of desecrating Sikh religious sentiments in Punjab were not "simple incidents" and "not a matter of mere condemnation", Harjinder Singh Dhami, the head of the SGPC, told NDTV.

Amid the deafening silence of Punjab's political faces over the two lynchings after alleged sacrilege attempts, state Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu has demanded public execution for those accused of desecrating religious texts.

The desecration of a Sikh religious text in Punjab's Faridkot in 2015, and subsequent police firing that killed two people, is one of the issues driving the feud between ex-Chief Minister Amarinder Singh and Navjot Sidhu.

Six people have been arrested by the SIT probing the incidents of the desecration of a religious text in Punjab's Faridkot in 2015, an official said on Saturday.

An order of the local administration in Punjab's Muktsar -- asking religious places to announce home delivery of liquor on their loudspeakers -- set off a huge row today as the opposition Akali Dal termed it "sacrilege". In the evening, the administration said it was an "inadvertent error" which was rectified.

The Punjab Cabinet on Tuesday decided to bring an amendment to Indian Penal Code (IPC) to make sacrilege of all religious text punishable with life imprisonment.

Punjab police will summon AAP lawmaker Naresh Yadav for questioning in connection with the alleged sacrilege incident in Malerkotla on June 24 after one of accused claimed that he had acted at the behest of the legislator.