Golden Temple sacrilege attempt: SIT on job to trace identity of accused
The identity of the slain accused who attempted sacrilege in the Golden Temple on December 18 could not be ascertained yet.The SIT constituted by the state government under DCP (law and order) Parminder Singh Bhandal has regularly been scrutinising the movement of the accused through CCTV footage and interrogating local residents around the Golden Temple.A nightwatchman of Dharam Singh Market has recognised the accused and told the police that he slept in the varandah of the market on December 17 night with stray dogs and took an abandoned blanket over him.
In one of the CCTV footage of December 17, he was spotted loitering in the streets near the Golden Temple and covered himself apparently with the same blanket.The same morning, he visited the Golden Temple and remained inside the complex all day long. The next day, he committed the sacrilege attempt at the shrine.Police officials said the CCTV footage of December 15 was also being procured from the ISBT and railway station to know the mode of transport he used to land here.The accused was cremated yesterday after the post-mortem was conducted under the supervision of a panel of doctors. Since his fingerprints did not match the biometric database, his DNA was procured to know about his genetic instructions, or any claimant approaches.
He never carried any identification document, when he was caught and later was beaten to death allegedly by the sangat on the shrine complex. On the other hand, the SGPC has appealed the electronic media to refrain from the telecast of the video clip pertaining to the sacrilege attempt at the Golden Temple that occurred on December 18 evening.Sukhdev Singh Bhurakohna, additional secretary, SGPC, said the sentiments of the Sikh sangat (community) were being hurt every time after seeing the clips of the viral videos by the television channels during their debates related to the unfortunate incident of the sacrilege.
“The repeat playing of clips by TV channels is hurting the minds of the Sikh community. The SGPC has no objection to the channels discussing this issue, but it is not appropriate to play the clips over and over again, as it is related to the sentiments of the sangat,” he said.
