AMRITSAR/CHANDIGARH, Oct. 7 -- Making the findings of an internal inquiry public, Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) chief Harjinder Singh Dhami on Tuesday acknowledged that the complainant in the Amarjit Singh Chawla rape case had stayed extensively at multiple gurdwara serais in Anandpur Sahib and received a Rs.1-lakh grant on the recommendation of the accused himself. Dhami had formed a four-member panel on September 22 after the SGPC and Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) faced backlash from Sikh bodies and political parties over allegations that the Bahrain-based woman had overstayed in the serais after an FIR was registered against ex-SGPC member Chawla on August 21. Following the FIR, Chawla resigned from his SAD and SGPC posts and reportedly left for Canada. He had denied the allegations as "false and fabricated". "The preliminary inquiry involved an examination of records, which showed that the concerned woman had stayed in serais of different gurdwaras on various occasions. The records showed that she deposited the prescribed amount while taking rooms. It is incorrect to claim that the SGPC had provided the woman rooms and a vehicle without payment. The inquiry revealed that serai in-charge Amrik Singh had tampered with the register and subsequently inserted additional entries. Such tampering was found on two occasions," Dhami said. The SGPC chief said the rooms had been given to the woman in the same manner as they were allotted to ordinary pilgrims. "However, other entries appeared to have been subsequently inserted by tampering with the records, and the handwriting in those entries did not match the sequence of the existing entries. A handwriting examination report would also be obtained regarding the two entries," he said. Based on the inquiry panel's recommendations, SGPC secretary Balwinder Singh Kahlwan said former manager of Takht Kesgarh Sahib Malkit Singh and serai in-charge Amrik Singh had been suspended. "Malkit has been suspended for alleged dereliction of duty, while Amrik had been suspended for allegedly tampering with the registers and making incorrect entries," he said. Dhami said the SGPC executive committee approved Rs.1 lakh in financial assistance from its Dharam Arth Fund based on an application submitted by the woman seeking help for treatment of her psychiatric illness. "The application was submitted along with relevant medical documents from a government hospital and dispensary. The assistance was provided on Chawla's recommendation," he said. Dhami questioned Aam Aadmi Party Punjab media in-charge Baltej Pannu for making the woman's phone records public. Reacting to Dhami's remarks, Pannu said nobody was attacking the SGPC as an institution and that the questions being raised were directed at those responsible for running it and anyone who may have misused their position. Pannu said that those responsible for running an institution must also be accountable for what happened under their watch....