An unidentified youth was hacked to death in police custody on Sunday afternoon near the village of Nijampur in the district of Kapurthala, allegedly for attempting sacrilege in a gurdwara. Senior police officials stated that there were no visible signs of sacrilege, but that they would continue to investigate the allegations. Another man was beaten to death in Punjab following an alleged sacrilege attempt. The adolescent was apprehended and taken to a room within the Gurdwara property in the wee hours of the morning. Later in the day, at a press conference, Jalandhar Zone Inspector General Gurinder Singh Dhillon and Kapurthala SSP H P S Khakh stated that everything in the room where the Bir of Guru Granth Sahib was kept was in good condition and that there were no visible signs of sacrilege anywhere in the building. It appeared to them that the incident was a theft based on first observations, as the kid was wearing two coats that he had obtained from a room on the ground level of the building where gurdwara caretaker Amarjit Singh lived with his family and helpers. In his statement, the IG stated that the deceased boy seemed to be a migrant, but that his identification would not be revealed until late in the evening.
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“Our officers attempted to talk with the outraged throng in order to transport the suspect away, but following the recent incident at Darbar Sahib, emotions were running high and police were exercising restraint in order to avoid a violent confrontation.” “In the midst of the chaos, a number of people managed to attack the suspect,” he explained. An FIR for sacrilege has already been filed against the deceased, according to the authorities. Other later occurrences were still being investigated, and a final decision on how to continue was yet to be made. They could be seen interrogating him about his identity and other details, but nothing could be heard clearly, despite the fact that one of them was heard claiming that he was referring to Gopalganj. Police had detained gurdwara caretaker Amarjit Singh, who had exhorted people in his Facebook to live to rush to the gurdwara while raising alarm about an attempted sacrilege, but he was released after Sikh groups staged a protest near the gurdwara and blocked the road, according to the Sikh news website.
