Golden Temple, Amritsar: TV footage of the incident shows people running to stop the man.
Chandigarh:
A man was lynched by a mob after an alleged sabotage attempt at Amritsar’s Golden Temple, police said on Saturday, an incident that has sparked tension in Punjab over a highly sensitive issue just ahead of elections. .
According to eyewitnesses, the man jumped off the railing of the sanctum sanctorum of the Golden Temple during the daily evening prayers and tried to grab the sword placed in front of the Guru Granth Sahib, the holy scripture of the Sikhs. The people present there stopped him and killed him.
TV footage of the incident – prayer is broadcast every day – showed people running to stop the man.
I strongly condemn this attempt of sacrilege inside the Darbar Sahib in Amritsar this evening.
The person has been apprehended, but it is worrying how such an incident can happen inside the Darbar Sahib complex.#darbarsahib#Golden Temple#Amritsarpic.twitter.com/BoD4lo5d6S— Avtar Singh Hit (@avtarsinghhit) December 18, 2021
Police confirmed the man was dead after the incident and said they were checking all CCTV cameras to find out where he had come from, when he entered the Golden Temple and how many people accompanied him. Were.
Amritsar Deputy Commissioner of Police Parminder Singh Bhandal said, “During prayers this evening, a person jumped off the fence and entered the enclosed area. The congregation was praying and offering obeisances.”
“A man of about 20 to 25 years of age, with a yellow cloth tied over his head, jumped over the fence… The people inside caught him and took him to the corridor where a violent brawl ensued and he died ,” He said. said.
“He was alone. All details will be revealed as there are a lot of CCTV cameras in the area and our team is alert, going through the footage. The postmortem will be done tomorrow. We will verify where he was from,” Mr. Bhandal he said. News agency PTI quoted him as saying that the man was a resident of Uttar Pradesh.
Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi, whose party Congress has accused the Congress of being lax in handling sacrilege cases, condemned the incident on Twitter.
The CM directed the state police officers to conduct a thorough investigation into the whole matter with regard to the real motive behind this cowardly act and the real conspirators.
(2/3)— CMO Punjab (@CMOPb) December 18, 2021
The desecration of the Guru Granth Sahib and Sikh temples is a highly emotional issue in Punjab and among Sikhs, who look to the holy book as their 11th Guru. There have been several instances of sacrilege in recent years, which have generated intense outrage as well as political upheaval.
The subject was one of the flashpoints in the feud between former Chief Minister Amarinder Singh and Punjab Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu, which ultimately resulted in the former’s acrimonious resignation.
The opposition Akali Dal intensified its attack on the state government over Saturday’s incident, which was a “deep conspiracy”.
The Akali Dal said, “The state and central government should look into this. It is a matter of great pain. It is an attempt to weaken Punjab which is the sword of India. Some people made it a political game in the last five years.” Is.” MP Balwinder Bhundar told NDTV.
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