Chandigarh, May 1 -- A Christian body - Anglican Church of India - has challenged the Punjab government's enactment of Jaagat Jot Sri Guru Granth Sahib Satkar (Amendment) Act, 2026, notified on April 20. The Bengaluru-based religious body is formulated by the enactment of Indian Church Act, 1927, and a petition has been filed through its metropolitan bishop Rockes Bernabas Sandhu, a resident of Amritsar. The plea seeks quashing of the law terming it "ultra vires the Constitution of India" and seeks restraint order against its implementation on the ground that the law creates a religion-specific penal regime by conferring special and elevated statutory protection exclusively to the "saroops" of Guru Granth Sahib. The plea says the law would result in hostile discrimination and unequal treatment between religions in violation of Articles 14, 15, 25 and 26 of the Constitution and amounting to impermissible state preference of one religion over others, infringing the autonomy of religious denominations, including the petitioner. One petition is already pending before the court challenging the law, filed by an Amritsar resident on similar grounds. The petition of this religious body is yet to be taken up for hearing. HTC...