However, senior leader of Haryana's ad-hoc committee of SGPC refuted the allegations.

'In our meeting on Aug 28 at Kaithal, we had decided that we will take over all the gurdwaras in Haryana. We did not enter forcibly or violate any norm. We did not even remove the SGPC men from the shrine,' said Jagdish Singh Jhinda, president of ad-hoc committee of SGPC.

'All the allegations against us are baseless and we only want the welfare of Sikh community in Haryana. Gates of gurudwara Chhati Pathshai are open for everyone,' said Jhinda.

Meanwhile, sources in the Punjab government told IANS that Punjab chief minister Parkash Singh Badal and SGPC president Avtar Singh Makkar were trying to contact Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda to discuss the issue.

'There is no firm ground of this ad-hoc committee and they are working in connivance with the Haryana government. I am myself going to that gurudwara to check what is happening there. We have also called all the senior leaders of SGPC there,' Makkar told IANS.

Amidst all this, tension prevailed in the area as followers of both the groups started gathering outside the gurdwara.

'We have made sufficient arrangements to maintain law and order situation in the area. We are keeping a close tab on the situation,' said a senior official of Haryana Police.