Chandigarh, A bill proposing stricter punishment, along side life imprisonment, for any act of sacrilege in opposition to the Guru Granth Sahib modified into tabled in the Punjab Assembly on Monday.
Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann equipped the Jaagat Jot Sri Guru Granth Sahib Satkar Bill, 2026, during a interesting session of the assembly right here.
Mann on Sunday acknowledged the rules would act as a robust deterrent in opposition to acts of sacrilege.
The Punjab Cabinet on Saturday licensed stringent amendments to the sacrilege law to construct punishments more extreme.
The Jaagat Jot Sri Guru Granth Sahib Satkar Bill, 2026, proposes stricter punishments from as a minimum 10 years of imprisonment to life imprisonment to discourage incidents of ‘beadbi’ and uphold the sanctity of the Guru Granth Sahib. It also proposes fines from ₹5 lakh to ₹25 lakh.
Taking portion in the debate on the Bill, A MLA Inderbir Singh Nijjar acknowledged it has been a save a matter to that there must peaceable be stricter punishment for any act of sacrilege in opposition to the Guru Granth Sahib.
Leader of Opposition Partap Singh Bajwa supported the Bill. He, on the opposite hand, demanded that a make a selection committee file on the Punjab Prevention of Offences in opposition to Holy Scriptures Bill, 2025, be tabled in the Condominium.
Bajwa asked the authorities whether it consulted constitutional specialists sooner than bringing the Jaagat Jot Sri Guru Granth Sahib Sarkar Bill, 2026.
He also sought to know from the enlighten authorities in regards to the provision of justice in the 2015 sacrilege incidents and police firing at anti-sacrilege protesters in Faridkot.
Oldschool Akal Takht jathedar Giani Raghbir Singh and A Rajya Sabha MP Balbir Singh Seechewal had been also show conceal in the Condominium.
Per the commentary of objects and reasons of the Bill, in essentially the most traditional previous, there had been attempts to disturb peace and communal solidarity in the enlighten by committing sacrilege of the Guru Granth Sahib.
“The government is determined not to allow such incidents and ensure deterrent action against all those who commit such sacrilege. Proposed ‘The Jaagat Jot Sri Guru Granth Sahib Satkar Bill, 2026’ aims to achieve this objective by providing punishment of life imprisonment for such acts of sacrilege,” it acknowledged.
Earlier, the authorities had acknowledged that the present provisions of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita attain no longer provide sufficiently stringent punishment for acts of sacrilege.
Whereas sections 298, 299, and 300 of the BNS attain address such matters, they attain no longer prescribe sufficiently stringent punishments to serve as a robust deterrent in opposition to such acts, it had acknowledged.
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