Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh has directed the DGP to order a thorough inquiry into the incident of sacrilege in which miscreants tore and threw pages of a new Sundar Gutka Sahib in Jalandhar on Thursday.Captain Amarinder has asked the DGP to ensure that the culprits are immediately identified and booked so that stringent and exemplary action can be taken against them. He also asked the police chief to take all possible steps to prevent vitiation of the secular environment in the wake of the incident, which occurred at around 11 a.m, when two motorcycle-borne persons, most likely clean-shaven, threw pages of Gutka sahib along a canal over a distance of around 250-300 mtrs.Such incidents of desecration of religious texts of any faith will not be tolerated and his government would now allow anybody found involved in these kind of sacrilegious acts to go scot-free, said the Chief Minister, reiterating his commitment to maintaining the peace and harmony of the state at all costs.The Chief Minister lauded Jalandhar DCP for controlling the tension which erupted after the incident, when some religious groups gathered at the spot and the nearby gurudwara.
The DCP briefed the gathering, after which the various groups started a collective Akhand Path at the gurdwara, thus helping to maintain peace.Captain Amarinder also instructed the security personnel to liaison closely with religious groups to maintain religious harmony, while deploying all resources at their disposal to trace the culprits.The Chief Minister asserted that nobody found guilty of involvement in any incident of sacrilege would be spared, and once the Commission of Inquiry set up to probe all such cases submits its report, the same would be taken to their logical conclusion, with severe action against the guilty.The government’s unrelenting pressure against such elements had led to a massive decline in the number of cases being reported in the state now, with only 13 incidents having taken place prior to today’s, since the change in guard, Captain Amarinder noted. Of these 13, as many as 12 had been solved, with the culprits having been identified and booked, he added.