New Mum­bai, In­dia: As Sikhs go through an in­ter­nal fight within the Gur­d­wara Sahib com­plex at Gur­d­wara Kharghar, po­lice promises ac­tion, while Mum­bai Sikhs un­happy at the de­vel­op­ment.

Every once in a while, from across the world, from one city or an­other comes the news of Sikh tus­sle over Gur­d­wara man­age­ment and it sad­dens the Sikh com­mu­nity a lot. In the last two days, the mat­ter of Gur­d­wara Kharghar came to a head with Sikh res­i­dents close to one group led by for­mer Pres­i­dent Sat­nam Singh, who is be­lieved to have de­frauded the San­gat, bru­tally man­han­dled Com­mit­tee mem­ber Harbinder Singh and his wife for ab­solutely no rhyme or rea­son.  

While Sat­nam Singh is ab­scond­ing till last re­ports came in, he is be­lieved to be close to re­li­gious and po­lit­i­cal lead­ers in Pun­jab and is in­fa­mous for his sec­tar­ian ap­proach. In June this year, he was booked by the Navi Mum­bai po­lice un­der Sec­tions 323, 342, 504 and 506 for vol­un­tar­ily caus­ing hurt, wrong­ful con­fine­ment and crim­i­nal in­tim­i­da­tion. Sub­se­quent to the case, elec­tions were held in July last at the in­ter­ven­tion of the Char­ity Com­mis­sioner, Al­ibaug.

Sig­nif­i­cantly there was ab­solutely no rea­son for the as­sault and it was only a small scuf­fle over some Lan­gar mat­ter but that was ap­par­ently a pre­text to be­come vi­o­lent as the group was un­happy at their de­feat a few months back. 

Till last re­ports came in, FIRs have been reg­is­tered by both the par­ties. WSN is in pos­ses­sion of doc­u­ments, videos and pic­tures of the as­sault. The po­lice are ex­am­in­ing CCTV footage and have as­sured the San­gat of book­ing the cul­prits.

Singh Sabha Mum­bai, the apex body of Sikhs in Mum­bai is at­tempt­ing to as­suage feel­ings and han­dle the sit­u­a­tion in an am­i­ca­ble man­ner.