Brothers arrested in Bargari ‘desecration’ released from jail

Sikh organisations had set the Punjab government a deadline of November 15 to free the brothers. On Sunday, the state government gave its nod to hand over the three of the ‘desecration’ cases to the CBI.

The two men were welcomed outside jail by supporters who had gathered in large numbers. Radical Sikh organisations, which had included their release in the nine-point resolution presented to the government on October 25, hailed it as their ‘first victory’ on social media. The organisations have, however, decided to go ahead with their state-wide protest from noon to 3 pm on Tuesday against the ‘desecration’ cases.

They were arrested from their native village of Panj Grain Khurd in Faridkot district on October 20.

Their father, Darshan Singh, alleged that police had picked up the two on the night of October 16 and later showed the arrests to have been made on October 20.
The two men received support since their arrests, initially from their fellow village residents and later radical Sikh organisations. Some villagers had claimed that Rupinder was at the forefront of the protests against the desecration of the Guru Granth Sahib at Bargari village and that he had been injured when the police had used force to disperse the dharna at Kotakpura Chowk on October 14.

Now, ‘desecration’ in Gurdaspur

An instance of desecration of a Sikh religious scripture – not the Guru Granth Sahib – was registered in Gurdaspur district Monday.
Gurdaspur was among the districts of Punjab that saw no desecration episode in the past one month and remained peaceful even as Punjab witnessed a spate of protests after several instances of desecration of the Guru Granth Sahib were reported.

On Monday morning, torn pages of a religious scripture were found on a street of Kalanaur town. The two women who found the pages collected them and the police were informed.

Residents blocked the Kalanaur-Batala Road for nearly three hours and called off the dharna after district administration officials promised action. No arrests have been made in the case yet.
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