Another incident of alleged sacrilege of the Sikh holy book, Guru Granth Sahib took place in Jalandhar, Punjab on Saturday. Torn pages from the holy book were found in a distributary of the Bist-Doab canal, near Sher Singh Colony. The Hindustan Times reports that even some pages of the Bhagvad Gita were also recovered from the canal.
Princepal Singh was returning after morning prayers from the local gurdwara, with a friend, when they discovered pages of the book in the canal. The two youths informed the Gurudwara management and word soon spread, with the police also being informed. Local residents descended into the flowing distributary and several pages were taken out despite the pages spreading a few kilometres with the flowing water.
Hundreds gathered around the busy Kapurthala Chowk, as news spread of the incident, raising slogans and blocking traffic as they asked for the perpetrators behind the incident to be arrested at the earliest.
Last October, an incident of sacrilege at Bargari, Faridkot had thrown Punjab into chaos. Two Sikh men were even killed in Behbal Kalan village, when police opened fire on protestors who were sitting on dharna against the incident.
