In 2015, the SGPC pardoned Gurmeet Ram Rahim for the 2007 blasphemy through a Rs 100 crore deal brokered allegedly at actor Akshay Kumar’s home in Mumbai. That is when Sukhbir Badal had, without consulting the SGPC President Avtar Singh Makkar, got the Akal Takht Jathedar Gurbachan Singh to issue the pardon.
