Archive · 28 Jan 2026
SIT Fails to Obtain SGPC Records on Missing Saroops
A special team from the Punjab Police is trying to find out what happened to 328 sacred copies of a holy book that went missing.
They went to an office in Chandigarh to get some records, but the people there said they would give them later.
The team will try again tomorrow.
The case was registered in December 2025, and the issue first came up in 2020.
The police are investigating because it's a serious matter involving the respect of the holy book.
The SIT visited the SGPC sub-office in Chandigarh to seek records related to the missing saroops.
The SGPC informed the SIT that the records would be provided the next day, without giving a reason for the delay.
The SIT plans to visit the office again the next day to obtain the records.
A case was registered on December 7, 2025, against 16 people, including a former SGPC official, for the disappearance of 328 saroops.
The matter of the missing saroops from the SGPC's publication house in Amritsar first came to light in June 2020.
- Who
- Special Investigation Team (SIT) of Punjab Police and Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC)
- What
- Investigation into the disappearance of 328 sacred copies (saroops) of the Sri Guru Granth Sahib
- When
- January 28, 2026 (SIT visit), December 7, 2025 (case registration), June 2020 (controversy began)
- Where
- SGPC sub-office in Chandigarh
- Why
- To obtain records related to the missing saroops for the ongoing investigation
- Organization Involved
- Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC)
- Investigating Body
- Special Investigation Team (SIT) of Punjab Police
- Case Registration Date
- December 7, 2025
- Number of Missing Saroops
- 328
- Key Sections of IPC
- 295, 295-A, 409, 465, 120-B
- Date of Controversy
- June 2020