India, June 3 -- An Amritsar resident, Gurpreet Singh, was arrested after he tore pages of the holy gutka (collection of prayers from the Gurbani) outside the Golden Temple, the holiest shrine of the Sikhs, on Monday night, police said on Tuesday.

The police said Gurpreet brought the gutkas of Sukhmani Sahib from Gurdwara Shaheed Ganj that is situated in the vicinity of the shrine around 10pm on Monday and started tearing pages near Guru Arjan Dev Niwas, one of the serais in the Golden Temple complex. When devotees noticed him committing the sacrilege, they overpowered and thrashed him before Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) employees took him into their custody.

After questioning him for an hour and a half, the SGPC staff...