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JALANDHAR: Seeking to put Badals in the dock for not presenting challan against Sirsa Dera chief in case of imitating tenth Sikh master Guru Gobind Singh at his Salabatpura Dera in May 2007 and Dera chief getting discharged from the case without any trial in 2014 during their rule, Sikh groups have urged the Punjab government to get the case reopened and put the Dera chief on trial. "However the court rejected the cancellation report after complainant countered police stand and later Dera head reached Punjab and Haryana high court which remanded the court back to the lower court in Bathinda in 2014. "Let Badals now explain this discharge of the Dera head," they said adding that SGPC also failed to pursue the case and its president should now also explain the reasons for this failure before the community. "Government should get the case reopened and get him prosecuted," they added.Sikh groups held that this case made it clear that there was dire need to get SGPC freed from political clutches. They announced that they would support the collective efforts, including the campaign launched by advocate H S Phoolka, to get SGPC free from political control..