Punjab: Sikh hardliners in preventive custody

November 11, 2015 12:09

The leaders of some Sikh outfits and hardline groups were taken into preventive custody early Wednesday in apprehension of breach of peace after a call that the newly-appointed jathedars would address the community from the Akal Takht.

Shiromani Akali Dal (Amritsar) President Simranjit Singh Mann and United Akali Dal leader Bhai Mokham Singh, the key organisers of Tuesday's 'Sarbat Khalsa' a grand assembly of Sikhs, were taken into preventive custody by the police.

Police said that the security in Amritsar, especially in and around the Golden Temple complex, had been strengthened.

"Mann and Bhai Mokham Singh have been taken into preventive custody," Amritsar Police Commissioner, J S Aulakh said.

He said that "the situation in Amritsar was "peaceful and under control."

There were reports that some more Sikh leaders including Amrik Singh Ajnala of Damdami Taksal, who was appointed as Head Priest of the Takht Keshgarh Sahib in the over seven-hour long congregation, had been rounded up by the police.

Notably, several Sikh outfits and hardline groups on Tuesday convened what they called 'Sarbat Khalsa' in Amritsar and appointed Jagtar Singh Hawara, the convict in Beant Singh assassination case, as Jathedar of Akal Takht, the supreme temporal seat of the Sikhs.

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