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SGPC for ban on auction of relics
WSN Network

CHANDIGARH: The Shiromani Gurdwara Prabandhak Committee plans to appeal to the international community to seek a ban on the auction of all kinds of religious relics.

Following the controversy created by the planned auction of a mediaeval-era armour by the Sotheby’s in London, the Sikh body also wants to take legal action against the auctioning agency for "playing with our sentiments". 

"If need be, we would approach the UNESCO, the UN and the international Human Rights bodies to help implement a ban on the auctions of such relics, which are revered by communities all over the world," SGPC general secretary Sukhdev Singh Bhaur told The Times of India. 

The auction house "has hurt our sentiments by first leading on the Sikhs to assume that the armour belonged to the Guru and then issuing contradictory statements about its origin", Bhaur said. 

Though the SGPC is no longer interested in holding up the scheduled auction on April 9, but it has appointed two London-based members of its panel of experts to collect evidence of how  "Sotheby’s may have tried to mislead the public on the armour, by alluding to, it being associated  with Guru Gobind Singh". 

9 April 2008
 

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