Summary:
Chandigarh, Jan 19 (PTI) Justice (retired) Ranjit Singh, who headed a commission to probe the 2015 sacrilege incidents in Punjab, on Wednesday said it was the Dera Sacha Sauda sect followers who were behind the desecration of the Guru Granth Sahib at Faridkot.
The former judge of the Punjab and Haryana High Court also said according to the available evidence, there was an “active role” of the then Director General of Police Sumedh Singh Saini in the subsequent police firing on people protesting the desecration incidents.
The former judge made the revelation, lamenting that both the previous SAD-BJP regime and the Congress government could not deliver justice despite the lapse of seven years after the incidents.
Justice Singh made the revelation in his book "The Sacrilege", based on the inquiry he conducted into the 2015 sacrilege and subsequent police firing incidents.
The book was launched here on Wednesday.
The incidents related to the desecration of Guru Granth Sahib and police firing at anti-sacrilege protesters at Kotkapura and Behbal Kalan took place in 2015 in the Faridkot district.