Overview

• The committee was constituted on July 15 after Finance Minister Harpal Singh Cheema called attention to the report’s missing action-taken segment during a special assembly session
• The action-taken portion of the Justice Gurnam Singh Commission report has been absent from Vidhan Sabha records despite the rest of the inquiry being archived
• Cheema raised the disappearance during debates on the Punjab Prevention of Offences Against Holy Scriptures Bill to underscore the need for institutional transparency
• The original commission probed the February 2, 1986 desecration of five Guru Granth Sahib copies at Gurdwara Sahib Guru Arjan Dev Ji and the February 4 police firing that killed four Sikh protesters
• Lawmakers say recovering the missing section is essential to clarify past government responses and guard against politically driven communal unrest