Overview
- The nearly 72‑hour occupation of the Nagrasu gurdwara in Rudraprayag ended on Tuesday when a Punjab Nihang delegation persuaded the group to come down and return to Punjab in orderly fashion.
- The sit‑in was linked to a June 16 clash in Karnaprayag in which police arrested four Nihang Sikhs and the state has moved both cases to Haridwar with DIG Yashwant Singh ordered to report on the inquiry.
- Gurdwara managers asked authorities not to press charges and the occupiers were fed langar and allowed to leave, a decision that local residents and some committee members say looks like leniency.
- Hundreds of Nihang supporters later gathered at the Himachal–Uttarakhand border, with heavy police deployments, barricades and some attempts to breach checkpoints that kept security on high alert.
- Officials say Char Dham and Hemkund Sahib pilgrimages are continuing under heightened vigil, and authorities have warned against misinformation as the probe and legal questions play out.