Patiala, March 19 -- The Samana police on Wednesday claimed to have solved the Samana sacrilege case, attributing the incident to an unintentional act by a four-year-old boy. The incident came to light on Tuesday morning when torn pages of a Sikh holy scripture were found scattered outside a shop on the Samana-Bhawanigarh road.

According to the police, the child had picked up a Gutka Sahib from outside the house of a ragpicker on the day of the incident, while on his way to the government elementary school in Samana in an e-rickshaw. The e-rickshaw had stopped outside the house of the ragpicker to pick up another child.

The boy allegedly tore pages of the book and threw them outside a shop where the vehicle halted briefly around 8:45 am...