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Chitleen Sethi is an Associate Editor with ThePrint. She is an award-winning investigative journalist and covers the Punjab region, with special focus on politics and governance. Chitleen joined ThePrint in 2016. You can reach her at chitleen.sethi@theprint.in
I hope that this family can get justice. Such acts have no place in a civilized society. At the end of the day, any religious text is only a book. And, the punishment for damaging (or even destroying) a book can never be death. Also, I understand that the Sikhs believe that the Guru Granth Sahib is a living Guru. But, from the little that I know of the Sikh Gurus, had Bakshish insulted one of them, he would have received compassion, not a death sentence, from them.