Amritsar : Union Home Secretary Ajay Kumar Bhalla today paid obeisance at Sachkhand Sri Harmandir Sahib Sri Darbar Sahib.

Later he was honoured at Sikh shrine’s information office with a photo of Sri Harmandir Sahib and a book by SGPC member Advocate Bhagwant Singh Sialka and Secretary Partap Singh.

On behalf of the SGPC President Advocate Harjinder Singh Dhami, SGPC member and secretary handed over a memorandum of demand in the name of Union Home Minister  Amit Shah to the Union Home Secretary regarding the clemency case of  Balwant Singh Rajoana and sought his release from jail. It has been said in the demand that following its notification issued on the occasion of 550th Prakash Gurpurb of Sri Guru Nanak Dev Ji in 2019, the Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India should commute the death sentence of Rajoana to life imprisonment and also order his release as he has already served more jail term than the life i.e. about 28 years. The Home Secretary listened seriously to the grievances raised by the SGPC delegates and gave an assurance of necessary proceedings, said the SGPC spokesperson in a statement.