{"id":1135608,"date":"2021-12-20T21:49:55","date_gmt":"2021-12-21T02:49:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1135608"},"modified":"2021-12-20T21:49:57","modified_gmt":"2021-12-21T02:49:57","slug":"india-mob-beats-man-to-death-for-allegedly-touching-holy-bejeweled-sword","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/india-mob-beats-man-to-death-for-allegedly-touching-holy-bejeweled-sword\/","title":{"rendered":"India: Mob Beats Man to Death for Allegedly Touching Holy Bejeweled Sword"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Findia-mob-beats-man-to-death-for-allegedly-touching-holy-bejeweled-sword%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1135608&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Amritsar-India-Golden-Temple-Dec19-2021-police-AP-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">A mob of Sikhs <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/india-news\/sacrilege-attempts-in-punjab-murder-probe-only-after-autopsy-report-says-sit-101640024490285.html\">beat<\/a> a man to death on Saturday inside the historic Golden Temple \u2014 one of the most revered shrines in Sikhism \u2014 in Amritsar, India, after the man allegedly attempted to commit a sacrilegious act by intruding into the shrine\u2019s inner sanctum and handling holy objects, including a jewel-encrusted sword, the <em>Hindustan Times<\/em> reported Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>CCTV cameras inside the temple <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NmUc_vESbMA\">captured<\/a> the man crossing a barricade separating praying Sikhs from the shrine\u2019s holiest section. Saturday\u2019s evening prayers were broadcast live on local television, meaning many Sikh devotees outside the temple and surrounding it were witness to the seemingly sacrilegious act.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Man Lynched After Sacrilege Attempt at Golden Temple, Netas Hint at Conspiracy: Here&#039;s What Happened\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NmUc_vESbMA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p>An unidentified man believed to be in his early 20s \u201cstepped inside the central enclosure of the sanctum sanctorum where the [Sikh] holy book Guru Granth Sahib is placed [and] picked up a diamond-encrusted sword,\u201d local police <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/india-news\/man-killed-over-sacrilege-in-golden-temple-police-101639856054648.html\">told<\/a> the <em>Hindustan Times<\/em> on December 19 after reviewing the video footage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[T]he man could be seen \u2026 approaching the priest who was reciting evening prayers,\u201d the newspaper detailed on December 21.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>A mass of Sikh pilgrims witnessing the incident inside the temple interpreted the act as attempted sacrilege. They moved to surround the suspect as employees of the Golden Temple apprehended the individual moments after his intrusion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs the man\u2019s act was telecast on live television during the broadcast of evening prayers at the shrine, word spread fast and angry pilgrims grabbed him even as he was being taken away by employees of the SGPC \u2026 and beat him to death before police arrived,\u201d Golden Temple officials told the <em>Hindustan Times.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The SGPC, or the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee, is an organization responsible for the management of gurdwaras, or Sikh places of worship, in the Indian states of Punjab, Haryana, and Himachal Pradesh. Amritsar is a city in northwestern India\u2019s Punjab state.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe man, about 20 to 25 years of age, had a yellow cloth tied on his head and jumped the fence \u2026 the people inside held him and escorted him out to the corridor where there was a violent altercation and he died,\u201d Parminder Singh Bhandal, deputy commissioner of Amritsar police, <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/religion-india-new-delhi-9ec82d2f49de48c0845bbc94292c74c9\">told<\/a> New Delhi Television (NDTV) on December 19.<\/p>\n<p>The Punjab state government formed a special investigation team (SIT) on December 19 to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/india-news\/punjab-constitutes-sit-to-probe-golden-temple-incident-says-report-in-2-days-101639907885070.html\">probe<\/a> the alleged sacrilege attempt at the revered Sikh temple. The SIT announced on December 21 it had already registered an initial police report \u201con the sacrilege bid under section 295-A (outraging religious sentiments) and 307 (attempt to murder) of the Indian Penal Code\u201d despite not having charged any of the men accused of beating the suspect to death with attempted murder so far.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cattempt to murder\u201d charge against the accused suspect, now deceased, seems to refer to his alleged attempt to physically attack the Sikh priest leading Saturday evening prayers at the Golden Temple on December 18.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[M]urder proceedings against the killers of the accused man will be done only after [the suspect\u2019s] autopsy reports,\u201d Punjab\u2019s SIT told the <em>Hindustan Times<\/em> on December 21.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur investigation is going on. After the investigation, we will also consider the post mortem report. After going through both, we will carry out the pending legal proceedings required in this case,\u201d Amritsar deputy police commissioner Parminder Singh Bhandal, who is heading Punjab\u2019s SIT, told the <em>Hindustan Times<\/em> on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A mob of Sikhs beat a man to death on Saturday inside the historic Golden Temple \u2014 one of the most revered shrines in Sikhism \u2014 in Amritsar, India, after &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1135608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1135608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1135608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1135608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1135608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1135608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1135608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}