Akal Takht pronounces ‘tankhah’ to four management members of Uttarakhand's Gurdwara Sri Nanakmatta

Amritsar, August 13

Akal Takht officiating jathedar Giani Harpreet Singh has pronounced ‘tankhah’ (religious punishment) to four managing committee members of Gurdwara Sri Nanakmatta Sahib in Uttarakhand on charges of violating the Sikh ‘rehat maryada’ (code of conduct). One among them was declared a ‘tankhaiah’ (guilty of religious misconduct) after he entered into an altercation.

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After discussions at Akal Takht, gurdwara committee president Sewa Singh, general secretary Dhanna Singh and Dera Kar Sewa Wale Baba Tarsem Singh have been directed to listen to early morning ‘katha’, clean up footwear of devotees, wash dishes and mop the floor for 15 days as punishment at the Nanakmatta gurdwara. Another gurdwara committee member Jaswinder Singh Gill was declared a ‘tankhaiah’. — TNS