Amritsar, Jan. 4 -- Making the second arrest in the case of missing 328 saroops of Guru Granth Sahib, Punjab Police on Saturday nabbed key accused Kanwaljit Singh.

Singh, now 63, was the assistant supervisor of the SGPC publishing house where the sacred saroops were found short in the record, and whose statement led human rights advocacy group Punjab Human Rights Organisation (PHRO) to expose the entire scam in 2020.

Deputy commissioner of police (DCP-Investigation) Ravinderpal Singh Sandu, who is a member of the special investigation team (SIT) formed by the Punjab government to probe the case, said Kanwaljit was arrested from his residence on Tarn Taran road in Amritsar.

As per officers privy to the probe, his mobile phones and some ...