Punjab Police on Tuesday claimed to have cracked two cases of sacrileges, including sacrilege of Quran Sharif in Sangrur district, and another incident where a page of Gutka Sahib was torn in police district of Amritsar Rural.
A police spokesperson said that the Punjab Police “acted swiftly” to crack two cases of sacrileges “which include sacrilege of Quran Sharif at Masjid of Mehlan Chowk village in Sangrur district and another incident in Butala village in Police District Amritsar Rural where a page of Gutka Sahib was torn within hours and in both cases accused persons have been arrested”.
Spokesperson said that regarding Sangrur district sacrilege incident, Inspector General of Police (IGP) Zone-I, Patiala, Parmraj Singh Umranagal held the press conference informing that the Special Investigation Team (SIT), set up for the case, succeeded to solve the matter on August 15, a day after crime was committed.
“An incident regarding sacrilege of Quran Sharif took place on August 15 at a masjid of Mehlan Chowk village and case under section 295-A of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) was registered at Chhajali police station,” he said.
Umranagal said that owing to sensitivity of the matter, a SIT was constituted of Dirba DSP Jasveer Singh, BS Wala CIA in-charge Inspector Satnam Singh, Chhajali SHO Inspector Vijay Kumar and assistant sub-inspector Karamjeet Singh to trace the case.
“On August 15, SIT got success when ASI Karamjeet Singh got secret information that sacrilege incident was committed by a person namely Ishrar Mohd, Saharnpur resident, and arrested him nearby Malli Dhaba, Mehlan Chowk, Sangrur,” he said.
He said that during interrogation, it was revealed that accused Ishrar Mohd is real brother-in-law of Maulvi Mohd Mustafa, who is complainant in the case.
“Accused confessed that he committed sacrilege incident at Masjid Mehlan chowk on August 14 at about 3 pm in the absence of Maulvi Mohd Mustafa and all his family…Accused fell in bad company and started taking drugs, due to which his sister Mohseena Begam and brother-in-law Maulvi Mohd Mustafa beaten him and force him to leave Masjid about three-four months ago,” he said.
Umranangal said that accused committed the sacrilege of Holy Quran Sharif “to take revenge from his sister and brother-in-law”.
In another matter, Police has arrested lakhwinder Singh who had torn the page of Gutka Sahib.
Official spokesperson said that a case has been registered on the statement of one Gurdev Singh who said that he has gone to the house of his brother-in-law, Baljit Singh, on August 15.
“Accused lakhwinder Singh was speaking loudly that he has taken money from Sukha Singh and he will tear the pages of Gutka Sahib and will falsely implicate Sukha Singh. Gurdev Singh and Baljit Singh prevented lakhwinder from doing so, but he torn the page of Gutka sahib,” said the police spokesperson.