A nihang was injured when the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee used force to disperse Sikh activists from outside the Golden Temple complex while demanding criminal cases against SGPC officials responsible for the missing Guru Granth Granth Sahib saroops.
Sikh activists launched an indefinite protest on Monday at the front door of Teja Singh Samundri Hall, the headquarters of the Apex Gurdwara Corps that faces criticism from the community for the missing saroops. In addition to criminal cases against negligent SGPC officials, activists want saroops located.
During the night, SGPC employees erected iron barricades at three points to isolate protesting activists and blocked the entrance to the Golden Temple from Gurdwara Baba Atal Rai Sahib and Manji Sahib Diwan Hall.
Due to the blockade, activists, including those injured nihang, was unable to join the unrest activists outside Sri Guru Ram Das Serai.
“They were sitting peacefully when the SGPC working group planned to disperse them. Their lathis were taken from them and they started beating the protesters with them to disperse them. The turbans of two activists fell off and one nihang he was injured, ”said a witness.
After an hour, more activists gathered at the scene and the situation became tense.
Visitors to the holiest shrine of the Sikhs faced inconvenience due to blockades carried out by the SGPC.
Mediators covering the incident were also attacked by SGPC employees.
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