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Now, the Kalgi row is on back burner
WSN Network

AMRITSAR: Like many spasmodically thrown up controversies among the Sikhs, the latest row on the authenticity of the Kalgi that was claimed to have been worn by the tenth Sikh guru, Guru Gobind Singh, and was then being studied by an SGPC sub panel, has now been put on the back burner.

The SGPC has neither validated the claims nor has clearly told the sangat that the Kalgi was not linked to the Tenth Master. For a few days, the Kalgi was displayed at the Akal Takht before questions over its authenticity were raised. Dalmegh Singh, SGPC secretary and co-ordinator of the fact-finding committee, has now stopped issuing statements, something he did all through the last month.

Carbon dating idea was rejected as the test that may establish the plume’s age cannot link it to Guru Gobind Singh.

IPS officer Harpreet Singh Sidhu, who was doing an MPhil in criminology at Cambridge University, and Kamaljit Singh Boparai, a businessman, had teamed up to get possession of the plume. They have declined to state how they got the relic. But a UK-based Sandhu family had  come forward to state that at no point had they claimed that the plume belonged to Guru Gobind Singh.  

19 August 2009
 

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