Amritsar, Nov. 20 -- YouTube has suspended activities on the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC)'s official channel, "SGPC Sri Amritsar", for a week starting Wednesday. The suspension comes after a video uploaded, during the evening rehras sahib recitation on October 31, featuring a Sikh preacher making references to Sikh warriors and events of 1984, allegedly glorified the assassins of former prime minister Indira Gandhi.

SGPC secretary Pratap Singh said, "YouTube-acting under its own policy-took action against one of the previously uploaded videos on the official SGPC channel that broadcasts gurbani kirtan from Sachkhand Sri Harmandar Sahib. As a result, the channel's activities have been suspended for a week." He added that...