Indian Penal Code prescribes a 3-year imprisonment for attempting sacrilege, but in Punjabi society, those accused of sacrilege or beadbi are exiled for life.
Pardeep Singh, accused in Bargari sacrilege, was shot Thursday, less than week after killing of a Shiv Sena (Taksali) leader. Deteriorating law & order has put state govt on backfoot.
The sacrilege incidents and police firing on protesters are widely seen as the reasons behind SAD's 2017 ouster. People are now angry at CM Amarinder Singh of Congress too.
Punjab and Haryana High Court Monday ordered CBI to hand over case, in which Akali leaders are the accused, to the Punjab Police, a long-standing demand of ruling Congress.
Earlier this month, CBI moved trial court to restrain Punjab Police from conducting a ‘parallel probe’, even though SC had dismissed its plea to continue probing the case.
The sacrilege cases had cost the Akalis the 2017 assembly polls and SAD is now staring at a rebellion. Any adverse SIT report could cause further damage to the party.
Canada faces serious foreign interference issues, but these challenges must not be weaponized to unfairly target friendly and important allies like India.
In Episode 1544 of CutTheClutter, Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta looks at some top economists pointing to the pitfalls of ‘currency nationalism’ with data from 1991 to 2004.
The decorated Naga officer from Manipur also served as envoy to Myanmar & Nagaland chief secy. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh inaugurated a museum dedicated to the Tawang hero Thursday.
While we talk much about our military, we don’t put our national wallet where our mouth is. Nobody is saying we should double our defence spending, but current declining trend must be reversed.
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