Punjab Assembly passes Bill seeking life sentence for sacrilege of religious texts
The Punjab assembly unanimously has passed the Indian Penal Code (Punjab Amendment) Bill, 2018, and The Code of Criminal Procedure (Punjab Amendment) Bill, 2018, for making sacrilege of Guru Granth Sahib and other religious texts punishable with life term.
The Captain Amarinder Singh government took back the amendments passed by the House during the previous regime that made only sacrilege of Guru Granth Sahib punishable with life imprisonment.
The new amendment through Section 295AA makes acts of sacrilege against all holy books, including Guru Granth Sahib, Bhagavad Gita, Quran and Bible, punishable with life imprisonment.
-PTC News
