This is typical behaviour of Sant Corp, the number one question is "Is anyone exempt from following hukams of Satguru Jee?"
Has anyone reached a "level" as high as Sri Guru Gobind Singh Jee? If Guru Jee themselves took Amrit and kept full rehat for their whole jeevan how can anyone even think of doing this type of compromise. There are yogis who never sleep and don't eat, does that make them Gursikhs? Certainly not. I am not impressed by these claims that flana baba does not eat or sleep, so what? They cannot even be considered a Sikh if they are not following the 5 Kakkar Rehat. These type of body control powers are piece of cake for the Singhs. If anyone is not following Rehat, despite their various titles and suspected spiritual "levels" we should most certainly question their behaviour, as it not Gurmat, and not acceptable.
If we look at the example of pooran unquestionable brahamgyaani gurmukh Bhai Sahib Bhai Randhir Singh Jee who
kept full rehat their entire life despite enjoying partakh darshan of Vaheguru Jee 24/7 I think this answers our question on if anyone is allowed take off Kakkars or make any other such compromise.
Necklace kirpan cannot be considered Kakkar, Kirpan must be of 6-7 inches or more in length, Sarbloh, in Miaan and in Gatra to be qualified as Kakkar. Some people give only Kirpan Amrit (and not Khanda Bata Amrit) to ladies, is this acceptable? Absolutely not.
The argument to concentrate more on doing Paath and ignore rehat is invalid, we can't just go around doing saying, doing, and eating whatever we want and say I will do extra Sri Jap Ji Sahib to make up for it. We will never get anywhere with this pick and choose approach to Sikhi, it is very dangerous.
Many Singhs today still believe taking Kirpan (or any other Kakkar off) is a kurehit (not bujjar kurehit) but still kurehit. In fact there are many hardcore Singhs in India who refuse to travel by air as it means they would have to take their Kirpan off.
It is Bandi Chor Divas today and I didn't wish to write such a post, but Vaheguru Jee bakshlain menu, here it is.