Punjab: Why Akal Takht has opposed new anti-sacrilege law0

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• July 6, 2026

Days after the law was passed, the Akal Takht raised objections, not to the harsher punishments, but to the provisions on terminology, the registration and custody of the physical forms of the Guru Granth Sahib and its administration. He argued that these were questions of Sikh religious practice that should be decided by Sikh institutions,