Amid an escalating standoff with Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC), the Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the alleged disappearance of 328 saroops of Guru Granth Sahib visited SGPC’s sub-office in Chandigarh on Wednesday.The visit came a day after SIT informed the Punjab and Haryana High Court that SGPC was allegedly not cooperating with the investigation. According to SIT, SGPC has been reluctant to provide crucial documents related to the missing saroops for the period under scrutiny.Patiala SP (Detective) Gurbans Singh Bains, who is serving as an investigating officer as part of SIT, said SGPC was not “fully cooperating.”“Certain documents ‘quite relevant’ to the case were sought in the original, which the SGPC flatly refused to provide,” he said.Refuting the allegations, SGPC president Harjinder Singh Dhami asserted that the SGPC had supplied the requested records multiple times. “This is the fourth occasion on which SGPC has handed over the records sought by SIT in connection with the saroops case. We have cooperated with utmost transparency, as directed by the Akal Takht. The claim made by SIT in the high court is completely false,” Dhami stated.He further accused SIT of exceeding its mandate by allegedly interfering in the internal administrative matters of SGPC, which he said had no relevance to the ongoing investigation.Dhami also warned that continued demands for “irrelevant information” and what he described as “false submissions” in court could compel SGPC to reconsider its cooperation.“If SIT continues to seek information unrelated to the case and misrepresents facts before the high court, we may be forced to withdraw our cooperation,” he said.In its affidavit submitted to the high court, Harminder Singh Sandhu, ACP (Detective), Amritsar City, and a member of the SIT, stated that the police had sent 14 letters to the SGPC seeking relevant records.  “However, SGPC has neither provided the requisite documents nor cooperated with the investigation,” the affidavit noted.Following these developments, SIT members again visited SGPC’s designated office in Chandigarh to obtain the required records.The case was registered by the Punjab Police on December 7, 2025, against 16 individuals based on a complaint filed by former Hazoori Ragi Baldev Singh Wadala. The FIR relates to allegations that 328 saroops of Guru Granth Sahib had gone missing over time from SGPC’s printing and publication department.Providing a timeline, Dhami said SIT’s first letter was received on January 13, 2026, and the requested records were submitted on January 29. A second letter dated February 17 sought information on eight points, which was provided on March 11. The third communication, received on April 3 seeking documents on 18 points, was responded to on April 27.“Even today, we have handed over the records they asked for. What more do they want? It appears they are trying to politicise the issue to please their political masters,” Dhami alleged.  He also objected to SIT seeking details of SGPC’s financial accounts, bank transactions, and broader financial records, stating that such demands fell outside the scope of the investigation.