Amritsar Dec 20 PTI SGPC chief Harjinder Singh Dhami on Monday expressed apprehension of a big conspiracy behind the alleged sacrilege attempt at the Golden Temple and said the man involved in it seemed to have received commando training He also claimed that the law allows a person to kill in self-defence suggesting that this is what happened at the Golden Temple when the man was lynched after the alleged sacrilege attempt He told reporters that suspecting foul play the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee SGPC task force had stopped the man from entering the Golden Temple but he managed to gain entry inside the sanctum sanctorum after the shift of task force members changed in the evening I feel that he had undergone commando training from the way he jumped the railing and did it made a sacrilege attempt in just six seconds There is a big conspiracy behind it Dhami said On being asked that the man was lynched when caught by the SGPC task force Dhami said devotees were angry over this incident The man had picked a sword and was going to attack the holy Guru Granth Sahib which is considered a living entity by Sikhs Dhami said He said one can kill a person in self-defence if somebody attacks with an intention of murder and the law does not consider it as an offence Before the task force members could do anything the man was beaten up by the angry crowd that led to his death he said Dhami said the SGPC will set up its own special investigation team to bring out the truth The incident had taken place on Saturday evening when the man jumped golden grills inside the sanctum sanctorum picked a sword and reached near the place where a Sikh priest was reciting the holy Guru Granth Sahib Less that 24 hours after the incident another man was lynched for allegedly disrespecting the Sikh religious flag at a gurdwara in a Kapurthala village on Sunday morning Police have registered complaints over the alleged sacrilege attempts in both cases but no FIR appears to have been registered in connection with the deaths PTI JMS CHS VSD RDK RDK

Amritsar Dec 18 PTI A man hailing from Uttar Pradesh was beaten to death after he allegedly attempted to commit sacrilege inside the sanctum sanctorum of the Golden Temple in Amritsar on Saturday evening The incident took place when the man jumped golden grills inside the sanctum sanctorum picked a sword and reached near the place where a Sikh priest was reciting the holy Guru Granth Sahib The man was caught by the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee task force members When he was being taken to the SGPC office the angry crowd thrashed him badly that later led to his death Deputy Commissioner of Police P S Bhandal said the man hailing from UP was around 30-year-old and his antecedents were being verified All CCTV cameras were being checked to know when he entered the Golden Temple and how many people were with him After the incident a large number of Sikh devotees and various Sikh outfits slammed the SGPC for its laxity A heavy police force has been deployed around the SGPC complex at Teja Singh Samundri Hall in order to maintain law and order PTI JMS CHS VSD RDK RDK

Amritsar Nov 28 PTI In a goodwill gesture the Border Security Force handed over a Pakistani national who inadvertently crossed over to Indian territory to Pakistani Rangers According to an official statement the Pakistani national entered Indian territory in the Gurdaspur sector on November 26 During questioning it was established that he crossed over to Indian territory inadvertently Nothing objectionable was recovered from him it said On the request of Pakistan Rangers he was handed over to them on Saturday the statement added PTI JMS CHS VSD RDK RDK