Aam Aadmi Party MP Raghav Chadha on Friday introduced a private member’s bill in Parliament seeking the maximum punishment for acts of sacrilege against religious scriptures, such as the Guru Granth Sahib, the Bhagavad Gita, the Bible and the Quran.

Private member’s bills are introduced in Parliament independently by MPs.

Speaking in the Rajya Sabha, Chadha said that his bill proposes to amend the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita to make sacrilege cases against religious scriptures an offence carrying the highest punishment.

The Aam Aadmi Party MP claimed that Punjab had witnessed several cases of sacrilege, adding that the state Assembly in 2018 passed a similar bill to provide for life imprisonment for such incidents.

That bill was returned by the president, he said. “Subsequently, th

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