Day later, police clueless despite many probe teams

SACRILEGE IN DHINDSA VILLAGE
Ludhiana: A day after torn pages of Sri Gutka Sahib (Sikh holy book) were found strewn at Dhindsa village, near Samrala, police are clueless despite forming many teams to crack the case.
On Sunday, Samrala police had registered a case under Section 295-A (deliberate and malicious acts, intended to outrage religious feelings of any class by insulting its religion or religious beliefs) of the Indian Penal Code against unidentified accused after torn pages were found in a cattle shed and on a road in Dhindsa village.
Samrala SHO inspector Sukhvir Singh said 10 teams, led by superintendent of police (detective), Samrala DSP and himself, were working on the case round-the-clock. He said each team has at least four cops and till now they have not been able to identify the accused. “We have also scanned the CCTV cameras installed in the area,” he added.
Police officials, however, said neither the house in whose shed the pages were found nor the road had CCTV cameras. The cameras installed at some distance from the spot showed vehicles with light on going towards the area.
Sources in police said they also suspect that outsiders came and threw pages in the cattle shed and on the road to create law and order problem. Cops said though some family members had seen the torn pages around 4am on Sunday, they did not study them. It was only after a woman member of the family went to milk a cow that she closely saw the pages and found them to be of a holy book.
On Sunday, complainant Surinderpal Singh had told cops that in the morning when they saw torn pages scattered on the road and inside their cattle shed, they informed the village panchayat and then the sarpanch called the Samrala police.
Senior officers of Khanna police reached the spot and started probe. Functionaries of Gurdwara Charan Kamal Sahib in Machhiwara and Gurdwara Katana Sahib later collected the pages, offered prayers and handed them over to the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee. He added the pages would be ceremoniously sent to Angeetha Sahib and they would send a report of the incident to the Akal Takht Jathedar.