The National Commission for Minorities (NCM) has written a letter to the Chief Secretary, Punjab, asking authorities to share a list of all incidents of sacrilege that have taken place in the State in the past 45 years. This has been done in order to analyse why frequent incidents of sacrilege occur in the State and are not being prevented, the NCM said.
This comes after an incident of sacrilege at Gurudwara Sahib in Morinda, where a man forcefully entered the religious place and assaulted the priests performing Akhand Path (uninterrupted recitation of the holy book Sri Guru Guru Granth Sahib). “The accused also disrespected the Sri Guru Guru Granth Sahib, which hurt the sentiments of the people,” the NCM noted.
