Highlighting the increasing incidents of sacrilege in Punjab, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Raghav Chadha moved a Suspension of Business Notice under Rule 267 in the Parliament on Tuesday.
In his letter to the Chairman, Chadha said that Punjabis all across the world are agitated due to the increasing incidents of sacrilege. “Such insult of the holy book Guru Granth Sahib cannot be tolerated,” he added. He further reiterated the incidents of 2015 when Guru Granth Sahib was burnt in Bargari and Shrimad Bhagwat Geeta in Ludhiana and said that several incidents of disrespect of holy books are coming forward.
“The punishments prescribed for such crimes under sections 295 and 295A of the Indian Penal Code are so lenient that the spirits of the ones responsible for it have turned higher,” he said mentioning that there is a need to bring a law that grants the strictest punishments to such offenders.
