1 arrested in 2022 church desecration case

The Amritsar rural police on Sunday claimed to have solved the 2022 Tarn Taran church desecration case with the arrest of the key accused, Jaswinder Singh, alias Munshi, of Talwandi Sobha Singh in the district. Divulging details, director general of police Gaurav Yadav said, “Police teams have also recovered an illegal 9 mm pistol along with a magazine and two live cartridges, a motorcycle and a mobile phone from the possession of the arrested person.” On August 31, 2022, four unidentified persons with their faces covered had vandalised the statues of Lord Jesus and Mother Mariam in a church in Thakkarpura village of Tarn Taran and fled after setting the pastor’s car on fire. Yadav said that during preliminary investigations, accused Jaswinder Munshi revealed that he, along with his associate Gurwinder Singh alias Afridi of Tut village and two others, had committed the crime. Sharing operation details, senior superintendent of police, Amritsar rural, Satinder Singh said that following an intelligence input that Jaswinder was going on his bike to deliver a weapon consignment, police teams laid a special checkpoint in the area falling under the Chatiwind police station and managed to arrest him after recovering a pistol.