Sacrilege incident in Ludhiana

Torn pages of a Sikh religious book were today found scattered near a heap of garbage at the Anandpuri locality here, police said.

During preliminary investigations, Harpreet Singh confessed that his children, who are toddlers, had torn the pages from the religious book inadvertently, they said.

Singh had moved into a nearby house in the locality as a tenant two days back, police said.

Police have arrested Singh on the charges of outraging religious feelings.