Justice (retd) Ranjit Singh Commission has submitted to Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh his final report on the critical Bargari sacrilege incident and the Behbal Kalan firing incident, along with some other important cases, as part of his first set of its probe findings.The Chief Minister has forwarded the report to the state Home Secretary and the Advocate General to examine the findings, in a time-bound manner, and suggest action so that the guilty can be brought to book at the earliest.The Commission was set up in April 2017 by the Captain Amarinder Singh led Congress government to investigate the various incidents of sacrilege of the holy Guru Granth Sahib and other religious texts after rejecting as `inconclusive’ the findings of the Zora Singh Commission set up by the erstwhile SAD-BJP government.Justice (retd) Ranjit Singh met the Chief Minister at his official residence on Saturday afternoon and submitted the detailed first set of findings in a sealed envelope.
The findings contained the final report of the Commission into the incidents of sacrilege at Village Burj Jawahar Singh Wala, Bargari, Gurusar and Mallke, as well as the firing incident of Behbal Kalan and Kotkapura.Giving details, an official spokesperson said the Chief Minister had assured that those found guilty of trying to create religious disharmony in the state through such actions would be punished.The Chief Minister, meanwhile, also congratulated the SIT for the arrest, earlier this month, of four men suspected to sacrilege incidents in Faridkot. The SIT of Punjab Police arrested the four Dera Sacha Sauda followers while investigating the 3-year-old sacrilege incidents at Burj Jawahar Singh Wala and Bargari villages of Faridkot.The Chief Minister expressed the hope that the arrests would help the CBI, which is probing the cases, in completing its investigations so that justice could finally be meted out to the victims and the guilty could be punished.Captain Amarinder Singh made it clear that his government, which had promised a fair probe into all incidents of sacrilege, would take the matter to its logical conclusion. Nobody trying to polarise the state on communal lines would be spared, he warned.