CHANDIGARH, Sept. 28 -- Chief minister Bhagwant Mann on Sunday reiterated that Akal Takht Sahib is supreme for "all of us" and emphasised that life imprisonment and heavy fines for those who commit 'beadbi' form the core provisions of the anti-sacrilege law and cannot be diluted.

"The state government will leave no stone unturned to protect the sanctity and dignity of Guru Granth Sahib through the strongest possible legal framework against sacrilege. The provisions prescribing life imprisonment and heavy fines for perpetrators of sacrilege constitute the core foundation of this law, and therefore the law must not be weakened at any cost," Mann said at a first meeting with a seven-member committee constituted by the state government to di...