Chandigarh,
\nThe Justice Ranjit Singh (retd) Commission, set up to probe cases of sacrilege, today made scathing observations after SGPC president Kirpal Singh Badungar didn\u2019t appear before it.<\/p>\n
SGPC chief Kirpal Singh Badungar failed to appear before the Congress government-appointed commission on Monday. The SGPC has already rejected the panel, claiming that it is supreme body managing Sikh religious affairs and thus can\u2019t be summoned by a commission.<\/p>\n
Blaming the SGPC for adopting an \u201cobstructive\u201d approach and \u201cnon-cooperation\u201d, the panel held it responsible for joining the chorus with politicians and spreading misinformation on summoning the Akal Takht Jathedar, despite being aware that no such summons were issued.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe SGPC was expected to willingly come forward to help and assist the commission trace the culprits committing sacrilege of Sri Guru Granth Sahib ji\u2026 Those raising objections seem to have no concern to unearth the acts of sacrilege,\u201d the commission said in its order.<\/p>\n
The panel said it had been deprived of the \u201caugust\u201d body\u2019s views due to its non-cooperative attitude. \u201cThe commission will now have to depend upon unauthenticated record. But it would still wait for assistance from the SGPC, if it ever has a change of heart,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n
The commission had summoned Badungar or his representative after a series of communications for discussing preventive measures and providing copies of the resolution granting pardon (later revoked) to Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh.<\/p>\n
Justice Ranjit Singh said the SGPC was summoned when no one responded to its request for a meeting to elicit suggestions. \u201cIt is a well-known fact that the SGPC is regularly being sued and is suing parties in the courts of law. Can it claim immunity from appearing? It could easily have detailed a representative to suggest measures, even if it had any inhibition to produce the summoned record.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Chandigarh, The Justice Ranjit Singh (retd) Commission, set up to probe cases of sacrilege, today made scathing observations after SGPC president Kirpal Singh Badungar didn\u2019t appear before it. SGPC chief Kirpal Singh Badungar failed to appear before the Congress government-appointed commission on Monday. The SGPC has already rejected the panel, claiming that it is supreme […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7293,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[314],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-punjab"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7291"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7292,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7291\/revisions\/7292"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}