Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Mar 18: District Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (DGPC) Jammu has expressed strong resentment against the sacrilegious act by some anti-social elements and demanded stern action against them.
In a press conference here today, DGPC president Jagjit Singh and general secretary, Avtar Singh Khalsa expressed strong resentment over the incident of beating up of a minor Sikh boy at Rajouri Garden in Delhi and causing damage to his hair recently. They said that a video which went viral on social media has shown great disrespect to the religious sentiments of the Sikh Community. The boy was shown beaten up and some people chopped off his hair.
They demanded that the people responsible for this act should punished severely as per law of the land. They said this is not an isolated incident, on some earlier occasions also, such incidents have taken place. It is responsibility of the present Govt to take serious note of it and take strict measures so that such incident are not repeated again.
They alleged that such incidents could be the outcome of the polarization being engineered by the present dispensation in the country and Sikh community will take serious note of it. They said such provocative acts are not in favour of any community and the country.
Several other leaders of Sikh organizations were also present at the conference. They included Jathedar Mohinder Singh, Harjinder Singh Raina president Shiromani Akali Dal (B), Kuldeep Singh, Manmohan Singh and Mohinder Singh.
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