Final SIT report on 2015 Punjab sacrilege circumstances places blames on Dera Sacha Sauda

By PTI

CHANDIGARH: The last investigation report of the Punjab Police on the 2015 desecration circumstances has pinned blame on Sirsa-based Dera Sacha Sauda.

Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on Saturday handed over the 467-page report of the particular investigation staff of the Punjab Police to Sikh leaders, together with Chamkaur Singh and Major Singh Pandori right here, stated officers.

The SIT led by Inspector General of Police SPS Parmar investigated the incidents and submit the report back to the state DGP on April 21.

The incidents associated to the theft of a ‘bir’ (copy) of the Guru Ganth Sahib, placing up handwritten sacrilegious posters and torn pages of the holy e book discovered scattered at Bargari had taken place in Faridkot in 2015.

These incidents had led to protests in Faridkot.

In the police firing at protesters in October 2015, two individuals had been killed in Behbal Kalan whereas some folks had been injured at Kotkapura in Faridkot.

According to the report, Dera chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim has been named in three desecration incidents.

As per the report, the motive behind the three circumstances “is having a direct link with the Dera Sacha Sauda and the accused persons who are involved in these cases are followers of the said dera.”

“It is evident from material/evidence collected by the SIT of the Punjab Police that the accused were having direct nexus with the management of the dera. The motive behind the incidents was also having a link with the movie ‘MSG-2’,” it stated.

Followers of the Dera Sacha Sauda had been upset over the non-release of Ram Rahim starrer Messenger of God (MSG-2) film.

The different accused in these three circumstances are Sukhjinder Singh, alias Sunny, Shakti Singh, Baljit Singh, Randeep Singh, alias Neela, Ranjit Singh, alias Bhola, Nishan Singh, Narinder Sharma and Pardeep Singh.

The three different accused–Harsh Dhuri, Pardeep Kler and Sandeep Bareta–are but to be arrested.

They have been declared proclaimed offenders.

Dera Sacha Sauda follower Mohinder Pal Bittu, who was a key accused within the circumstances, was killed in a Nabha jail by two inmates in 2019.

The SIT had even questioned Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh within the Sunaria jail of Haryana’s Rohtak in reference to the incidents.

However, the report stated Ram Rahim remained “non-cooperative” through the course of investigation by the SIT.

The three circumstances of sacrilege are underneath trial at a Faridkot court docket and the subsequent date for the framing of costs in opposition to the accused is July 29.

Last yr, the CBI on the instructions of the Punjab and Haryana High Court had handed over the paperwork and recordsdata associated to the 2015 incidents to the Punjab Police SIT.

In 2015, the then SAD-BJP authorities had handed over the three circumstances to the CBI for probe.

The Punjab authorities had handed over the probe to an SIT of the state police in September 2018 after the state Assembly handed a decision withdrawing consent to the CBI to research these circumstances, noting lack of progress within the investigation.