JOIN USThe case against the two Sikh brothers accused of sacrilege in Punjab — for which the police last week went to town claiming success — has come a cropper.
The two brothers, Jaswinder Singh and Rupinder Singh, were released from the Faridkot jail late on Monday evening.
Sikhs and several organisations had been up in arms against the police move to arrest the two brothers. The police had claimed a foreign conspiracy angle to the rising sacrilege incidents in Punjab.
The two brothers were arrested after the police played audio conversations between the brothers and some other persons suspected to have been involved in the crime. The police had said calls came from Dubai and Australia. Ever since the arrest of the two brothers there have been widespread protests in the state.
On Monday, Punjab Congress president Partap Singh Bajwa demanded immediate resignation of chief minister Parkash Singh Badal for “harassing two innocent brothers who were wrongly arrested in the case of sacrilege of Guru Granth Sahib in Bargari”.
He said the Deputy CM Sukhbir Singh Badal even went to the extent of claiming foreign hand in the conspiracy. “The Badal government had lost face and had no right to continue in office. The Badal government must quit immediately,” he said.
CBI probe
Earlier on Sunday, in the wake of growing unrest over rising incidents of sacrilege, Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal gave approval to transfer the investigation of three sacrilege cases involving Guru Granth Sahib to the CBI.