Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal on Monday asked Director General of Police P S Gill to investigate the incident of alleged blasphemy in an episode of a popular TV series.

Some alleged objectionable and derogatory remarks were made in the October 6 episode of serial Bidaai on Star Plus channel, with reference to Bhagwan Valmiki. Badal sought exemplary punishment for those involved in the incident.

An assurance was given by the Chief Minister to a delegation of Valmik Samaj led by its president Raj Kumar Atikay in a meeting here.

“It has not only hurt the sentiments of Valmik Samaj but also stirred the emotions of the people in general”.

He reiterated that peace, communal harmony and religious tolerance in Punjab would be maintained at all costs and no one will be allowed to play with religious sentiments of the people.

Badal also called the Union Information and Broadcasting Minister Ambika Soni on telephone and urged her to immediately initiate action against the channel.

The Jalandhar SSP has sent a special team of police personnel to Mumbai for preliminary investigations and a case has already been registered against the producer, director, script writer besides the actors.