SGPC ex-general secretary held for hurting religious sentiments
Friday - September 7, 2018 10:30 pm ,
Category : INDIA
Chandigarh Sep 7 (IANS) Former general secretary of the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) Sukhdev Singh Bhaur was on Friday arrested from Mohali town adjoining Chandigarh following a case registered against him for hurting religious sentiments of a community police said.
He was booked by the Punjab Police in Banga town in Nawanshahr district around 85 km from here following a complaint from the members of Ravidassia community who alleged that Bhaur had hurt their religious sentiments by saying unwarranted things against the community s religious leader Sant Ramanand.
Sources said that Bhaur who made the comments in a recent speech took to social media to regret his utterances and apologised to the community members.
Sant Ramanand who headed the influential Dera Ballan in Punjab s Doaba belt was killed in an attack at a shrine in Vienna in Austria in 2009. His killing had brought Punjab to a standstill due to violence by the Ravidassia community in Jalandhar Kapurthala and Hoshiarpur districts.
Bhaur had even remained acting-President of the SGPC earlier. He fell out with the Shiromani Akali Dal leadership in 2015 following sacrilege incidents in the state.
The SGPC considered mini-parliament of Sikh religious affairs is a cash-rich organisation with an annual budget of nearly Rs 1 200 crore. It manages gurdwaras (Sikh temples) in Punjab Haryana and Himachal Pradesh including the holiest of Sikh shrines "Harmandir Sahib" popularly known as Golden Temple in Amritsar.
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He was booked by the Punjab Police in Banga town in Nawanshahr district around 85 km from here following a complaint from the members of Ravidassia community who alleged that Bhaur had hurt their religious sentiments by saying unwarranted things against the community s religious leader Sant Ramanand.
Sources said that Bhaur who made the comments in a recent speech took to social media to regret his utterances and apologised to the community members.
Sant Ramanand who headed the influential Dera Ballan in Punjab s Doaba belt was killed in an attack at a shrine in Vienna in Austria in 2009. His killing had brought Punjab to a standstill due to violence by the Ravidassia community in Jalandhar Kapurthala and Hoshiarpur districts.
Bhaur had even remained acting-President of the SGPC earlier. He fell out with the Shiromani Akali Dal leadership in 2015 following sacrilege incidents in the state.
The SGPC considered mini-parliament of Sikh religious affairs is a cash-rich organisation with an annual budget of nearly Rs 1 200 crore. It manages gurdwaras (Sikh temples) in Punjab Haryana and Himachal Pradesh including the holiest of Sikh shrines "Harmandir Sahib" popularly known as Golden Temple in Amritsar.
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