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Time of India
a day ago
- Politics
- Time of India
‘Against principles': Nanded gurdwara board chief slams call to excommunicate families over non-Sikh wedlocks
Amritsar: The Takht Sachkhand Sri Hazur Abchalnagar Sahib Gurdwara Board administrator, Vijay Satbir Singh, has hit out at a demand by the heads of 27 Sikh families in Nanded, Maharashtra, to excommunicate families whose women married non-Sikh men. When contacted, Vijay Satbir Singh called the demand "something ridiculous" and "against the very basic principles of Sikhism, which promotes equality and teaches not to differentiate people by their religion". "This is nothing but an act to gain cheap publicity and attract attention," said the administrator. Earlier, a section of Sikhs from Nanded —including former members of the board — had appealed to the jathedar of Takht Hazur Sahib to issue the directives for excommunication. Manpreet Singh Kunjiwalae, a former member of the board, said he wrote the letter to the jathedar and it was signed by heads of 27 Sikh families, who expressed concern over the increasing number of Sikh women marrying non-Sikh men. "It is concerning that Sikh women are choosing to marry outside the faith, turning away from Sikh men. What's more troubling is that instead of guiding them otherwise, many parents are supporting these decisions and accepting non-Sikhs as sons-in-law and fully integrating them into the family," he said. He added they urged the jathedar to issue a formal directive on the matter during the upcoming meeting of the five Sikh high priests scheduled for July 24.
Time of India
2 days ago
- Politics
- Time of India
Nanded board rejects excommunication call
Amritsar: The Takht Sachkhand Sri Hazur Abchalnagar Sahib Gurdwara Board has rejected a demand by the heads of 27 Sikh families in Nanded, Maharashtra, to excommunicate families whose women married non-Sikh men. When contacted, gurdwara board administrator Vijay Satbir Singh called the demand "something ridiculous" and "against the very basic principles of Sikhism, which promotes equality and teaches not to differentiate people by their religion". "This is nothing but an act to gain cheap publicity and attract attention," said the administrator. Earlier, a section of Sikhs from Nanded — including former members of the board — had appealed to the jathedar of Takht Hazur Sahib to issue the directives for excommunication. Manpreet Singh Kunjiwalae, a former member of the board, said he wrote the letter to the jathedar and it was signed by heads of 27 Sikh families, who expressed concern over the increasing number of Sikh women marrying non-Sikh men. "It is concerning that Sikh women are choosing to marry outside the faith, turning away from Sikh men. What's more troubling is that instead of guiding them otherwise, many parents are supporting these decisions and accepting non-Sikhs as sons-in-law and fully integrating them into the family," he said. He added they urged the jathedar to issue a formal directive on the matter during the upcoming meeting of the five Sikh high priests scheduled for July 24.
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Evening Standard
7 days ago
- Entertainment
- Evening Standard
The Estate at the National Theatre review: Adeel Akhtar is extraordinary
'The first rule about being brown is that we don't tell white people how sh*t we treat each other,' Angad says at one point to Humphrey Ker's domineering whip Ralph (who was also his contemporary at Harrow). For all his deference to his rich, pregnant, non-Sikh wife Sangeeta (Dinita Gohil) he can't entirely escape the old, sexist codes of the Punjab or the bullying dynamics he absorbed at home and at school.
Hindustan Times
13-06-2025
- Hindustan Times
Bathinda police arrest two ‘nihangs' for social media influencer's murder
Two nihangs were arrested on Friday for the murder of social media influencer Kanchan Kumari, 30, popularly known as Kamal Kaur Bhabhi, who was found dead under mysterious circumstances in her car parked outside Adesh University at Bhucho Kalan along the Bathinda-Chandigarh highway on Wednesday. Bathinda senior superintendent of police Amneet Kondal said Jaspreet Singh and Nimratjit Singh were arrested for the murder, while a search was on for the third accused, Amritpal Singh Mehron, a self-styled Sikh radical leader, who is absconding. 'Kanchan was strangulated to death,' the SSP said, terming the crime an outcome of 'unauthorised moral policing'. During preliminary probe, the arrested accused said they killed Kanchan for uploading immoral content 'that hurt the community's sentiments'. Mehron had approached Kanchan last week on the pretext of a business meeting, inviting her to Bathinda to attend a paid promotion event, the SSP said. She left her house in Ludhiana at 3.30pm on June 9 with Jaspreet and Nimratjit and a few hours later she was strangulated with a waistband in her car. The accused were not in nihang attire when they committed the crime, the police said. Kanchan, who had 2.36 lakh followers on YouTube, 3.84 lakh on Instagram and 1.74 lakh on Facebook, had received threats for posting explicit content on social media. In October last year, terrorist Arsh Dalla had also reportedly threatened her with dire consequences if she did not stop posting inappropriate videos. The arrests were made after a radical Sikh group claimed responsibility for the murder on social media hours after Kanchan's decomposed body was recovered from the car. A video has surfaced on social media in which Mehron is seen justifying the crime, saying Kanchan was killed by two of his accomplices. He said she belonged to a non-Sikh family but used a Sikh name for creating 'immoral digital content'. He went on to add that his accomplices would target people engaged in objectionable content creation. Police got a lead in the case when a CCTV video surfaced where an unidentified person wearing a turban was spotted driving into Adesh hospital parking lot at 5.30am on June 10. A resident of Lachman Colony in Ludhiana, Kanchan had left home, saying she was going to Bathinda for a promotional event but subsequently lost contact with her family. Local residents in the Bhucho suburb informed police about stench emanating from the car on June 11. Police rushed to the spot and found the woman dead on the rear seat of the car and she was later identified as Kanchan. A murder case was registered on the complaint of her mother, Girja Devi, at Bathinda's cantonment police station. Kanchan's last rites were performed in Bathinda on Thursday evening.
