A special investigation team (SIT) of the Punjab Police investigating the case of missing ‘saroops’ (sacred copies) of the Sri Guru Granth Sahib on Thursday failed to obtain the SGPC records it had sought in connection with the case.
The SIT visited the Chandigarh sub-office of the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) to collect the required documents, but was informed that the records would be made available later.
“Even today, we did not get the record. We have been told that they (SGPC) will provide records tomorrow,” said SIT member Gurbans Singh Bains, adding that no reason was given for the delay.
Bains said the SIT team would return to the office again on Friday to seek the documents and noted that the team had already shared a detailed list of the records required with the SGPC.
He added that this was not the first visit, as the SIT had earlier also approached the SGPC office for the same records.
Earlier, the Amritsar police registered a case on December 7, 2025, against 16 people, including a former SGPC official, in connection with the disappearance of 328 ‘saroops’.
The FIR includes sections such as 295, 295-A, 409, 465 and 120-B of the IPC, relating to defiling sacred objects, hurting religious sentiments, criminal breach of trust, forgery and criminal conspiracy.
The issue of the missing ‘saroops’ from the SGPC’s publication house in Amritsar surfaced in June 2020 and had triggered a major controversy at the time.
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