Unutilized Delhi: Performing on brandnew requests from Sikh population leaders and politicians, the Executive of Republic of India says it has raised issues with Qatari government over a brochure of the Guru Granth Sahib being held in police custody in Qatar since extreme time.
The Sikhs believe the Guru Granth Sahib to be a dwelling Guru.
In line with the Ministry of Exterior Affairs (MEA), the federal government has taken cognizance of news of the ‘swaroop’ being in custody and calls for for it to be exempted.
“We have seen reports regarding the Guru Granth Sahib seized by the Qatari authorities and the demand of their release by the Sikh community. Government has already taken up the matter with the Qatar side and our Embassy has kept the Sikh community in Doha abreast of developments in this regard,” MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal stated Friday.
In December 2023, two swaroops of the Guru Granth Sahib had been seized upcoming teams had been discovered praying at Gurudwaras, and humans had been charged for “running religious establishment without the approval of Government of Qatar.”
Qatari regulation restricts society devotion of faiths alternative than Islam.
Presen the accused had been exempted and one swaroop returned, a brochure of the Granth Sahib remains to be in custody.
Our reaction to media queries referring to Guru Granth Sahib in Qatar:https://t.co/IMbwwSv1cI pic.twitter.com/0U9yQRlAo8
— Randhir Jaiswal (@MEAIndia) August 23, 2024
At the people and teams being charged through Qatari government for practising their faith in society, the MEA famous, “Our Embassy rendered all possible assistance within the ambit of local laws and regulations.”
Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) chief and Member of Parliament from Bathinda Harsimrat Kaur Badal and Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) president Harjinder Singh Dhami had prompt the Centre and international ministry to absorb the reason with Qatar.
“Keeping the ‘swaroops’ confiscated at a police station is a big disrespect which cannot be tolerated,” Dhami wrote Thursday in a letter to Exterior Affairs Minister Dr S. Jaishankar and Indian envoy to Qatar, Vipul.
He claimed that the worship follow or ‘prakash’ used to be being carried out on personal attribute and now not in society. Badal too claimed that the ‘prakash’ were taking park in Qatar at two places for over 35 years and demanded that Sikhs be allowed to profess their faith and identify Gurudwaras in Islamic international locations just like the UAE.
The MEA Friday famous that “the other swaroop is also kept with respect” in Qatar and confident that they “continue to follow up the matter with Qatar authorities with high priority and hope for early resolution”.
In any other case extreme time, efforts of the Indian govt helped within the aid of the sentence of 8 Indian ex-Army workforce arrested in Qatar on fees of spying. To begin with awarded the dying sentence, they had been upcoming exempted through Qatari government at Republic of India’s request.
(Edited through Amrtansh Arora)
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