India, Jan. 11 -- For the second time in the last three weeks, a local right-wing religious group has disrupted an annual Nagar Kirtan (religious procession) organised by the Sikh community to mark the birth anniversary of Guru Gobind Singh in New Zealand on Sunday. Sikh bodies including the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC), Amritsar, have expressed deep concern.

This time, the incident happened in Tauranga city, some 225 km from Auckland. The procession began at 11 am on Sunday, January 11, at the Gurdwara Sikh Sangat temple, and moved towards Tauranga Boys' College via Cameron Road, as per local sources.

Keeping in view the possibility of a disruption by the Christian group, the police department had already beefed up se...