The petition related to the Bargari sacrilege case was heard in the Supreme Court today (3 February). The Punjab government has been given three weeks’ time by the court to file a reply. However, Dera Sacha Sauda, Sirsa chief Ram Rahim has not got relief in this case. At the same time, now the hearing of this case will be held on March 18.
This is how the hearing went on in the court today
According to the information, in the last hearing on the petition of the Punjab government, the order of the Punjab and Haryana High Court was stayed, in which the trial against Gurmeet Ram Rahim in the cases of sacrilege of the holy book Sri Guru Granth Sahib in 2015 was stayed. On this occasion, Ram Rahim’s lawyer told the court that the state of Punjab had sent the CBI to investigate these cases. The CBI was investigating them,
Suddenly after 2 years, the consent of the CBI was withdrawn. This cannot be done. The CBI went ahead and filed the closure. They were unhappy. Later the Punjab Police investigated. On this, the Punjab government official said that this is the third round of litigation. He was presented as an accused not by the CBI, but by the state police. After the case came to them, there is no whereabouts of him.
Know the whole controversy here…
At the center of this controversy are several incidents of sacrilege in Punjab, which began with the theft of a copy of the Guru Granth Sahib from a gurdwara in Burj Jawahar Singh Wala village in Faridkot in June 2015. After this, in September, hand-drawn desecration posters against the holy book were put up in Jawahar Singh Wala and Bargari villages of Faridkot. In October of the same year, several torn pages of the holy book were found scattered near a gurdwara in Bargari.
Later, the situation turned into such that there were massive protests in Punjab. The state police opened fire on the protesters, killing two agitators, during which social and political unrest in Punjab increased further.
A total of 12 people were named in three interlinked cases related to the theft and desecration of copies of the Guru Granth Sahib. The previous coalition government of the Shiromani Akali Dal and the Bharatiya Janata Party handed over the investigation to the CBI in November
