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From stoic silence on lynching to downplaying it as ‘altercation’, politicians, cops stay silent on the brutality inside holy Sikh site

Former chief ministers of Punjab, BJP leaders, DCP, all speak about 'sacrilege' but stay silent on mob justice and lynching of a man.

A man was lynched to death on allegations of desecration at Darbar Sahib (the Golden Temple) on Saturday, December 18. The video of his lifeless body being brought out of the temple has gone viral.

However, many politicians have focussed only on the alleged sacrilege while maintaining deafening silence over the lynching of a man on these allegations. Instead of condemning the mob violence in as many words, the statements by politicians seem to be focussing only on the alleged sacrilege.

Former Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh termed the incident of attempted sacrilege of Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji at Darbar Sahib as horrific. He demanded the government to go to the bottom of the fact.

“Govt must get to the bottom of what led this man to act in such a despicable manner,” Amarinder Singh in a tweet.

He did not mention even once that the mob should not have taken law into their own hands.

Founder of Khalsa Aid, one of the NGOs that had explicitly supported and provided logistic support to the recently concluded ‘farmer protests’ at the Delhi borders, termed the incident of ‘sacrilege’ as ‘a terror act’. He then said how he would like to know who sent the man to carry out sacrilege and what motivated him. Except, in a twisted fate, it would perhaps be hard to know because the ‘congregation’ decided to give mob justice and kill him instead of handing him over to police like one would expect in a civilised world.

BJP Punjab State President Ashwani Sharma, too, condemned the ‘sacrilege’ and asked for investigation. He, too, stayed silent on the man’s lynching.

Former Punjab CM Sukhbir Badal, too, condemned the ‘sacrilege’, but stayed mum on the lynching. In fact, the called it a deeprooted conspiracy that has ‘shaken the entire Sikh quom’.

Punjab DCP Rampal Singh even referred to the lynching as ‘altercation’.

DCP Parminder Singh Bhandal said how the man who ‘barged inside’ the Golden Temple where the Guru Granth Sahib is kept and tried desecrating it with sword. He said how the man was ‘taken out by Sangat people’ where he ‘died in the altercation’.

Some even described the lynching as ‘justice delivered’.

Bali has often identified himself as a journalist and has been quite a vocal voice in the recently concluded farmer protests. He also suggested that the Indian ‘liberals’ should not question the ‘Panth’.

Amritsar lynching incident over ‘sacrilege’

On Saturday, a 23-24 year old man was lynched to death by a mob over allegations of sacrilege inside the Golden Temple, Amritsar.

The video of the incident suggests that he was standing calmly with the sangat in the sanctum sanctorum for darshan.

But as his turn came, he suddenly scaled and jumped inside the railing and picked up the sword kept in front of the saroop (copy) of Sri Guru Granth Sahib.

The youth was immediately overpowered by sewadars on duty. He was taken out and beaten to death near Teja Singh Samundri Hall. The deceased aged between 20 and 25 is yet to be identified as police did not find any document or identification card on the dead man. But some reports have claimed that the deceased was a native of Uttar Pradesh.

In the last two months, this is the second incident of lynching for the alleged sacrilege of Guru Granth Sahib Ji. Nihang Sikhs brutally killed a Dalit youth Lakhbir Singh at the farmers’ protest site at the Kundli border for allegedly showing disrespect to the holy book.

Political parties have expressed concerns and condemned the incident of alleged sacrilege. But as can be seen, maintained silence over lynching.

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