India, June 29 -- All 78 Sikh members of Punjab's 117-seat assembly - including CM Bhagwant Mann, his Sikh cabinet colleagues and speaker Kultar Singh Sandhwan - appeared before the Akal Takht, the supreme temporal seat of Sikhism, in Amritsar on Monday over a law they had passed two months earlier.

By the end of the sitting, the legislators present had agreed to re-amend the legislation in line with Sikh sentiments, after the Akal Takht gave the Punjab government one month to act on a formal list of objections.

Here is what the law does, why it became a point of dispute with Sikh clergy, and what was decided when the matter reached the Akal Takht.

The Akal Takht is not a government body but the highest temporal authority in Sikhism, s...