The Shiromani Akal Dal on Tuesday rejected the CBI’s closure report on the investigation into the sacrilege of the Guru Granth Sahib at Bargari in 2015, announcing that the party will challenge the closure and take all legal, constitutional and political steps to get the probe by the apex investigating agency reopened.
A decision to this effect was taken at a meeting of the core committee of the party here.
SAD spokesperson Harcharan Singh Bains said it was decided that a delegation of SAD leaders would call on Union Home Minister Amit Shah and urge him to intervene in the matter for withdrawal of the closure report by the CBI.
‘No justification’
“There is no justification in filing the closure report by the CBI. Sikh organisations have been demanding a probe by the central agency as they had expressed lack of faith in the probe being conducted by the Special Investigation Team of the Punjab Police,” he said.
Party president Sukhbir Singh Badal said he was taken aback by the CBI’s closure report. “The culprits are still to be charged, tried and punished,” Mr. Badal said.
