Amritsar, January 28 – Ajai Singh, son of former Akal Takht Jathedar Giani Puran Singh, has been deported from Canada after serving a sentence of 90 days for sexual assault on a 13-year-old girl there last year.
A “raagi” working with the SGPC, 38-year-old Ajai Singh had proceeded to Canada on leave for performing “kirtan” last year. The victim belonged to the family he was staying with in Abbotsford near Vancouver.
The SGPC had placed him under suspension soon after a complaint was filed against him in February last year. He had written a letter to the SGPC claiming that he was implicated in the case.
The incident had left many in the Indo-Canadian community red-faced as the accused is the son of a former jathedar of Akal Takht, the highest temporal seat of the Sikhs. The SGPC had dismissed him following his conviction in the case.