chandigarh one of the main reasons for the sadbjp government tasting its worstever defeat in the 2017 punjab assembly polls was sacrilege incidents and police firing at sikh protesters people elected the congress as it promised to deliver justice in these infamous incidents of desecration of guru granth sahib and subsequent police firing incidents of october 2015 in faridkot district which led to the death of two sikh protestersas the congress completes three years in power peoples anger against the sadbjp alliance is turning towards the incumbent party as they still await justice this despite the fact that congress made sacrilege and police firing cases at kotkapura and behbal kalan major poll planks in the 2019 lok sabha polls toothen congress national president rahul gandhi even addressed a rally at bargari the epicentre of sacrilege protests even chief minister amarinder singh announced in that rally to build a memorial for those killed and injured in the firing the memorial is yet to see the light of daysad is now trying to turn the tables on congress for not bringing perpetrators to book and incumbent party mlas have also started questioning the government congress jalandhar cantt mla pargat singh took on his own government during the recent budget session of the assembly saying party functionaries felt embarrassed when people asked them why their government had not been able to ensure trial in the fiveyearold casesprobe statusan fir was registered on june 2 2015 for the theft of guru granth sahib from burj jawahar singh wala gudwara second fir was registered on september 25 2015 for handwritten posters and the third on october 12 2015 over torn pages of guru granth sahib being found in bargari village these firs registered at bajakhana police station were initially handed over to cbi by the previous sadbjp government in november 2015in april 2017 the congress government formed justice ranjit singh inquiry commission to probe the incidents later after a resolution passed by the state assembly the punjab government issued a notification on september 6 2018 withdrawing the probe from cbibut cbi continued with the probe and filed a closure report in the special cbi court in mohali on july 4 2019 the punjab and haryana high court upheld the states right to take the probe back even supreme court sc on february 20 rejected cbis plea and allowed punjab police sit to probe sacrilege cases too earlier this month cbi informed the mohali trial court it was going to seek a review of scs decisionpolice firing casespolice had on october 14 2015 opened fire on protesters at behbal kalan in which two sikh men sarawan villages gurjit singh and niamia wala villages krishan bhagwan singh died police also fired in kotkapura injuring many protesters both cases are pending before the faridkot district and sessions court for framing of chargespunjab police sit headed by special dgp prabodh kumar bureau of investigation director has presented one challan in the behbal kalan case in the faridkot