Bathinda, May 21 -- Three weeks after the Muktsar district police registered Punjab's first FIR under the Jaagat Jot Sri Guru Granth Sahib Satkar (Amendment) Act, after torn pages of a Sukhmani Sahib gutka (prayer book) were found scattered in Malout town on April 30, the cops are yet to make a breakthrough.

The case was registered under Section 299 (malicious acts intended to outrage religious feelings) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) in addition to the new Act, which provides for stringent punishments, including life imprisonment and fines up to Rs.25 lakh, for acts of sacrilege against the Guru Granth Sahib.

The anti-sacrilege bill, which proposed amendments to the original 2008 Act, was passed unanimously by the Punjab Vidhan S...