AMRITSAR, Dec. 31 -- Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) president Harjinder Singh Dhami said on Tuesday that the gurdwara body had already taken action against all employees involved in the case of missing saroops, and that the state government had no justification to interfere in what he termed an internal matter of the Sikh community.

Dhami's statement came a day after chief minister Bhagwant Mann accused the SGPC of failing to find the missing saroops and said it was "using the Akal Takht as a shield" to save people close to their "masters".

Mann was reacting to the decree issued by the Sikh clergy from Akal Takht, in which they had asked the AAP government to stop meddling in the internal matter of Sikhs or face action i...