Chandigarh, Oct. 9 -- Punjab government has set up a three-member special investigation team (SIT) to probe a rape case in Anandpur Sahib, in which an ex-SGPC member has been booked, a state AAP leader said on Thursday.

"Chief minister Bhagwant Mann has constituted the three-member SIT to be headed by senior Punjab Police officer Gurbans Singh Bains, with Simranjit Singh and Karan Singh Sandhu as members," AAP Punjab media in-charge Baltej Pannu said.

Former Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) member Amarjit Singh Chawla was booked on the charge of rape in Anandpur Sahib on August 21, following a complaint by a woman who had returned from Bahrain, and was reportedly housed in an SGPC-managed serai. Chawla, who resigned as SGP...