Punjab: Why Akal Takht has objected to a new anti-sacrilege law
Days after the law was passed, the Akal Takht raised objections – not to the tougher punishments, but to provisions on terminology, the registration and custody of physical forms of the Guru Granth Sahib, and its administration. It argued these were matters of Sikh religious practice that should be decided by Sikh institutions, not the…