Kapurthala: Punjab police arrested Amarjit Singh, caretaker of Nizampur Gurdwara while booked over 100 unidentified people under murder charges in the lynching case for suspected sacrilege bid on Sunday.
Addressing a press conference in Chandigarh, Punjab chief minister Charanjit Singh Channi said on Friday there is no evidence to suggest there was a sacrilege bid in the state’s Kapurthala, where a man was accused by a mob of trying to remove a holy flag of the Sikhs at a gurdwara and beaten to death.
On December 19, a man was beaten to death in Nizampur village in Kapurthala after he allegedly tried to remove Nishan Sahib, a religious flag of the Sikhs, from atop a gurdwara.