Granth robbery will be probed, State assures Sikh community

NAGPUR, MARCH 29: State Minister for Cooperation Diwakar Raote arrived in the city on Sunday as an emissary of the State Chief Minister Narayan Rane to express solidarity with the local Sikh community in the wake of theft of Guru Granth Sahib from Ramdaspeth Gurudwara.

Soon after he came, Raote drove to the Ramdaspeth Gurudwara and met members of the Sikh community. He gave a patient hearing to the grievances of the community and told the agitated members that the theft of Guru Granth Sahib from the Gurudwara was a highly condemnable act and the State Government would spare no effort to bring the culprit to book. He also received a memorandum on behalf of the office-bearers of the Gurudwara and later addressed a meeting of Sikh community leaders and senior police officials at Ravi Bhawan. The Minister took review of the investigations of the city police in the case on the occasion.

According to a senior police official the investigations in the theft case has made no progress further and theindependent teams formed for the case have not succeeded in making in any breakthrough in the case. After two days of rasta-roko on the third day, Sikh community members took out a procession from Baba Budhaji Nagar Gurudwara which passed localities of north Nagpur before terminating at Pachpaoli Gurudwara.