Amritsar: A man, who made a sacrilege attempt in the sanctum sanctorum of the holy Golden Temple, was beaten to death by the public on Saturday evening.
The culprit, who seem to be an Uttar Pradesh migrant, crossed the barrier inside the temple when Rahiras Sahib (evening prayers) was going on.
He tried to pick the historical sword, placed in front of the Guru Granth Sahib as a mark of respect, and was stopped by the alert sewadars of the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Commitee (SGPC), the body which controls the management of the gurdwaras.
When the culprit was frisking out of the holy shrine to the SGPC office complex, the angry mob attacked them and as a result, the culprit received injuries and died.
Senior police officers have reached the spot and started investigation.
A sacrilege incident also took place last week in the Golden Temple, when a miscreant threw the 'Gutka Sahib' in the sarovar.
Meanwhile, many panthic outfits criticised the SGPC for not making proper security arrangements to control such type of incidents.
Sikh organisation 'Sar Lath Jatha' head Bhai Dilbagh Singh Sultanwind said that SGPC had failed to manage the proper administration as a result of which, 328 holy Sikh scriptures had been lost in the recent years and were still untraceable. (UNI)
