Indian man beaten to death inside historic Sikh temple

NEW DELHI — A antheral was beaten to decease successful the bluish Indian metropolis of Amritsar aft helium allegedly attempted to perpetrate a sacrilegious enactment wrong the historical Golden Temple, 1 of Sikhs’ astir revered shrines.

The incidental occurred during the regular evening supplication connected Saturday, media reported, aft the antheral jumped implicit a railing wrong the interior sanctum and attempted to drawback a sword that was kept adjacent the Guru Granth Sahib, the Sikh beatified book.

TV footage showed radical wrong the temple rushing to halt him.

Police told New Delhi Television that the antheral was killed aft the incidental and that they were checking CCTV footage to glean much information.

“The man, astir 20 to 25 years of age, had a yellowish cloth tied connected his caput and jumped the obstruction ... the radical wrong held him and escorted him retired to the corridor wherever determination was a convulsive altercation and helium died,” Parminder Singh Bandal, lawman commissioner of Amritsar police, told the channel.

The main curate of Punjab state, wherever Amritsar is located, powerfully condemned the incident, calling it the astir “unfortunate and heinous enactment to effort sacrilege,” his bureau tweeted precocious connected Saturday.