Chandigarh: Protesting the filing of a murder case against the Dera Sacha Sauda chief by the CBI, sect supporters went on a rampage on Saturday setting ablaze trains and buses, pelting stones at vehicles and vandalising property in several places in Punjab and Haryana. (See pictures)
The protesters set afire a compartment each of the Ferozepur-Ludhiana Sutlej Express and two local passenger trains in Punjab, a Northern Railway spokesman said.
They also vandalised railway property at Tapa, Moga and Kalaiyat in Punjab, he said.
Last week, the CBI had booked Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh for the murder of sect Manager Faqir Chand in 1991.
The sect head also faces three other cases including one of sexual exploitation and two of murder of another sect Manager and a Sirsa-based journalist.
A post office was set on fire at Talwandi Sabo in Bathinda by some persons who also forced closure of shops and commercial establishments at Mansa in Punjab.
Two buses were torched by the protesters, including some women, on the Ambala-Hissar bypass at Kaithal and one in nearby Narawan town.
In Moga, the protesters tried to set ablaze the District Administration Complex, housing among others the offices of the Deputy Commissioner and the SSP, prompting police to fire in the air to scatter them.
In Sirsa, the protesters torched a bus each in Alika, Kurangawali and Begu villages. They also set afire two jeeps in Kalayat town.
Some persons set on fire a Delhi-bound Haryana Roadways bus near Mirzapur village in Hissar district after asking the commuters to alight.
The protesters also blocked vehicular traffic on the Hissar-Delhi road near Hansi.
Dera's chief spokesman Aditya Insaan said the sect followers were not behind the violence which erupted in Punjab and Haryana after the registration of the fresh case against Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh.
The protesters set afire a compartment each of the Ferozepur-Ludhiana Sutlej Express and two local passenger trains in Punjab, a Northern Railway spokesman said.
They also vandalised railway property at Tapa, Moga and Kalaiyat in Punjab, he said.
Last week, the CBI had booked Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh for the murder of sect Manager Faqir Chand in 1991.
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The sect head also faces three other cases including one of sexual exploitation and two of murder of another sect Manager and a Sirsa-based journalist.
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A post office was set on fire at Talwandi Sabo in Bathinda by some persons who also forced closure of shops and commercial establishments at Mansa in Punjab.
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Two buses were torched by the protesters, including some women, on the Ambala-Hissar bypass at Kaithal and one in nearby Narawan town.
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In Moga, the protesters tried to set ablaze the District Administration Complex, housing among others the offices of the Deputy Commissioner and the SSP, prompting police to fire in the air to scatter them.
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In Sirsa, the protesters torched a bus each in Alika, Kurangawali and Begu villages. They also set afire two jeeps in Kalayat town.
Some persons set on fire a Delhi-bound Haryana Roadways bus near Mirzapur village in Hissar district after asking the commuters to alight.
The protesters also blocked vehicular traffic on the Hissar-Delhi road near Hansi.
Dera's chief spokesman Aditya Insaan said the sect followers were not behind the violence which erupted in Punjab and Haryana after the registration of the fresh case against Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh.
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