[2015 Sacrilege Incidents] SC Dismisses Plea Challenging Direction To CBI To Hand Over Case Diaries, Records To Punjab Police
Live LawThe Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed the challenge to the Punjab and Haryana High Court's direction to the CBI to hand over all case diaries and papers related to the 2015 sacrilege incidents, including alleged desecration of Guru Granth Sahib, to the Punjab Police within a month.On January 4, during a hearing on the plea of one of the accused in the sacrilege incidents, Sukhjinder Singh. The Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed the challenge to the Punjab and Haryana High Court's direction to the CBI to hand over all case diaries and papers related to the 2015 sacrilege incidents, including alleged desecration of Guru Granth Sahib, to the Punjab Police within a month. On January 4, during a hearing on the plea of one of the accused in the sacrilege incidents, Sukhjinder Singh alias Sunny, the Punjab and Haryana High Court has directed the CBI to hand over all case diaries and papers related to the 2015 sacrilege incidents, including alleged desecration of Guru Granth Sahib, to the Punjab Police within a month.The Punjab government had handed over the probe into the alleged desecration of Guru Granth Sahib and other religious texts of the Sikh faith in 2015 to a Special Investigation Team of the state police in September 2018 after the state Assembly passed a resolution withdrawing consent to the CBI to investigate these cases, noting lack of progress in the investigation. The high court rejected Sukhjinder's plea and asked the CBI to hand over all relevant documents and material in the sacrilege cases to the Punjab Police, it said.