3 Arrested Trying Sell Old Hand Written Copy Of Sggs

[osingh]

Day and Night News:

Hand-Written copy of Guru Granth Sahib recovered

Three persons have been arrested by the Delhi Police for trying to sell off an old, hand-written copy of the Guru Granth Sahib for Rs 20 crore. The accused have been identified as Praveen Babbar, who owns a hotel in Karol Bagh; Santosh Singh from Mirzapur, Uttar Pradesh; and Kalyaneshwar Gautam from West Champaran in Bihar.

The accused told cops that the copy of the Guru Granth Sahib was 300 years old and they had procured it at Patna Sahib Gurudwara. A police team has been sent to Bihar to investigate the matter, while expert opinion has been sought to find out the historicity of the holy book.

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How was this puratan (old) bir of sri Guru Granth Sahib 'procured' from sri Patna Sahib Gurdwara?

The SGPC should conduct an investigation into this incident and also set up a team dedicated to preserving puratan bir's of sri Guru Granth Sahib.

Satguru Mehar Karan.

[GPS]

It is not known where in Bihar this manuscript was procured.

http://www.indianexpress.com/news/Trio-got-handwritten-Guru-Granth-for-Rs-15-lakh--tried-to-sell-it-for-Rs-20-cr/915009/

“We have taken the accused in five-day police remand. The preliminary inquiries reveal that they had purchased the copy from Bihar for Rs 15 lakh,” Karol Bagh Station House Officer, Ram Mehar Singh, told The Indian Express, adding that raids are on nab a Gurgaon-based businessman involved in the case.--------

As per some reports the manuscript may have been stolen from Gurdwara in Bihar.

[osingh]

Takht sri Patna Sahib is located in Bihar.

Whether the Granth Sahib was procured from a normal Gurdwara in Bihar or sri Takht Sahib it is a serious crime. If the management committee of the Gurdwara were involved in this deal then it is even more serious. What has the SGPC or sri Akal Takht sahib done so far? So many cases of beadbi but no action. I have no faith that the SGPC or Jathedars will pursue this matter with any conviction. The SGPC should conduct its own independent investigation into this matter not just the dehli police:

"While Babbar, Gautam and Santosh Singh have been arrested, a team of Delhi police is in Bihar to investigate the matter. “The police are trying to ascertain as to from where the copy was procured,” SHO added."

I reckon Gursikhs from UK, Canada, America, Italy and other sikh sangat outside of Punjab could do a better job then SGPC/Jathedars in regards to satkar of dhan sri Guru Granth Sahib ji. Gursikhs in Panjab are unaware of the beadbi occurring because the media is controlled by politicians.

Satguru Mehar Karan

[GPS]

SGPC has no jurisdiction over gurudwaras in Bihar. But still they should get involved in this matter.

What type of gursikhs you are talking from UK, canada etc. There are very gursikhs in these countries

and there are very bad elements as well who are instrumental in creating doubts about bani of Guru sahibans

and break shardha of an ordinary sikh.

Let us see what does police crack from these criminals.

[S1ngh]

SGPC work is to gather funds from certain historical gurdwara that comes under the management of SGPC. Managers and sewadars are appointed by sgpc to these gurughars. Not all gurdwaras in India are under SGPC control. Majority of historic gurdwaras in punjab are under SGPC control with limited numbers in haryana and few outside of Punjab. SGPC power is limited to book-keeping and budget control of darbar sahib and other ithaasik gurdwara in Punjab.

2 Takhts outside of Punjab are in control of their own management and nobody can change them .. nor sgpc or akal takht sahib got any control on them. They are 100% independent. Akal Takht Sahib is supreme body which we can say "Supreme court" of all sikhs while other takhts are like high court. Any say from akal takht sahib is final and nobody can overturn that decision except by singh sahib jathedar sahib.

Sikh Reference Library is the only department that manages sikh manuscripts but however we had very anti-sikh elements such as harjinder singh dilgeer in past who were once heading such prestige department. Anyway this is the job of this department that should be managing such high end cases. They should track, list and trace all historic items in india. It was believed that daughter-in-law of maharaja ranjit singh, pricess bhamba who took keen interest in having repository of all sikh priceless items and manuscripts. She was the one who created Sikh Central Library mid of 19th century, which was later turned into Sikh Reference LIbrary (?)

I don't think we have any systematic document or guidelines on what and how to keep all purataan birs safely... We all know that guru sahib's Anandpuri Bir is in the hands of some private person but still we have no clue where it is.

[chatanga]

It was believed that daughter-in-law of maharaja ranjit singh, pricess bhamba who took keen interest in having repository of all sikh priceless items and manuscripts. She was the one who created Sikh Central Library mid of 19th century, which was later turned into Sikh Reference LIbrary (?)

Very interesting. Do you know where we can get more info on this ?

[GPS]

Chatanga ji

Maharani Bambha lived for a number of years in Lahore and died there. She had very large collection

of sikh artifacts that she left in pakistan.The photo below is one of those.

Maharaja Ranjit Singh listening to the two sacred Granths being recited near Sri Harimandir Sahib.

(A Painting by August Theodore Schoefft (1809-1888), made in Amritsar. From Princess Bamba Collection)