The SIT had given Akshay Kumar the option of appearing before it in Chandigarh instead of Amritsar. (File Photo)
Bollywood superstar Akshay Kumar appeared before the Special Investigation Team (SIT) in Chandigarh probing the police firing on mobs protesting the 2015 incidents of desecration of Guru Granth Sahib in Punjab.
Akshay arrived at the airport in the morning and went straight to the Punjab Police headquarters at sector-9, Chandigarh. He refused to talk to reporters.
The SIT had given Akshay Kumar the option of appearing before it in Chandigarh instead of Amritsar. The Punjab Police SIT had earlier summoned Akshay Kumar to Amritsar circuit house on November 21.
"We have given him (Akshay Kumar) the freedom to appear here (in Chandigarh)," SIT member and Inspector General of Police Kunwar Vijay Pratap Singh said.
Akshay, whose name figures in the Justice Ranjit Singh Commission report on the desecration incidents, has already denied arranging any meeting between former Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal and Dera Sacha Sauda sect head Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh.
The actor had also denied having ever met Sirsa-headquartered Dera's chief, who is currently serving a 20-year jail term in two rape cases.
Akshay Kumar had issued the denial on November 12 after the SIT summoned him along with former Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal and SAD chief Sukhbir Singh Badal.
"It has come to my knowledge that some rumours and false statements are being loosely made on social media about my involvement with a person named Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh in the context of a fictitious meeting involving Sukhbir Singh Badal," Akshay had said in tweet.
"With all humility, I would like to state the following facts. I have never ever met Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh in my life, anywhere. I learnt from social media at some point that Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh resided for a while at some place in my locality Juhu in Mumbai but we never crossed each other's paths," Akshay had said on the micro-blogging site.
The SIT has already questioned former chief minister Parkash Singh Badal and his son Sukhbir Singh Badal in Chandigarh.
(Witn inputs from PTI)