{"id":20249,"date":"2026-06-12T08:48:34","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T03:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/sit-records-ex-jathedars-statement-over-badals-2024-guilt-admission-chandigarh-news\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T08:48:34","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T03:18:34","slug":"sit-records-ex-jathedars-statement-over-badals-2024-guilt-admission-chandigarh-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/sit-records-ex-jathedars-statement-over-badals-2024-guilt-admission-chandigarh-news\/","title":{"rendered":"SIT records ex-jathedar&#8217;s statement over Badal&#8217;s 2024 &#8216;guilt&#8217; admission | Chandigarh News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-articlebody=\"1\"><video-embed value=\"false\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"ihgno clearfix  \">\n<div class=\"e9jwa\">\n<div class=\"vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"GfdvZ\">\n<section class=\"_bIDB  clearfix id-r-component leadmedia undefined undefined  E9tg9 \" style=\"top:0px\">\n<div class=\"_bIDB\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">\n<div class=\"ypVvZ\">\n<div class=\"WGttI\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-131672802,imgsize-34326,width-400,height-225,resizemode-72\/giani-raghbir-singh-tells-behbal-kalan-sit-about-sukhbir-singh-badal39s-admission.jpg\" alt=\"SIT records ex-jathedar's statement over Badal's 2024 'guilt' admission\" title=\"Giani Raghbir Singh tells Behbal Kalan SIT about Sukhbir Singh Badal's admission\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"Ta7d_ img_cptn\"><span title=\"Giani Raghbir Singh tells Behbal Kalan SIT about Sukhbir Singh Badal's admission\">Giani Raghbir Singh tells Behbal Kalan SIT about Sukhbir Singh Badal&#8217;s admission<\/span><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>CHANDIGARH: The <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/special-investigation-team\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\">Special Investigation Team<\/a> (SIT) probing the 2015 Behbal Kalan firing, which claimed the lives of two anti-sacrilege protesters, on Wednesday recorded the statement of former Akal Takht Jathedar Giani Raghbir Singh.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"4\"\/>The statement pertains to SAD president Sukhbir Singh Badal&#8217;s &#8220;admission of guilt&#8221; for the incident before the Akal Takht on Dec 2, 2024, after which the highest temporal seat of the Sikhs pronounced tankhah (religious punishment) on him as atonement for &#8220;mistakes&#8221; and &#8220;religious misconduct&#8221;. <span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"7\"\/>These included the 2015 sacrilege incidents and the police firing on protesters in Behbal Kalan, which occurred during the SAD-led govt when Badal served as deputy CM holding the home portfolio.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"11\"\/>Giani Raghbir Singh told TOI over phone he was asked why he did not pursue legal action following Badal&#8217;s &#8220;admission of guilt&#8221;. &#8220;Our domain was limited to pronouncing religious punishment. Badal performed the sewa imposed on him. Though he backtracked later, live proceedings at the Akal Takht were witnessed across the globe,&#8221; he said.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"13\"\/>Badal hit back at the ex-jathedar, saying he was not afraid of facing cases or going to jail.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/city\/chandigarh\/sit-records-ex-jathedars-statement-over-badals-2024-guilt-admission\/articleshow\/131672529.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Giani Raghbir Singh tells Behbal Kalan SIT about Sukhbir Singh Badal&#8217;s admission CHANDIGARH: The Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the 2015 Behbal Kalan firing, which claimed the lives of two anti-sacrilege protesters, on Wednesday recorded the statement of former Akal Takht Jathedar Giani Raghbir Singh.The statement pertains to SAD president Sukhbir Singh Badal&#8217;s &#8220;admission of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20250,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[299],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-latest-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}