Dera Followers Sirsa

Two more suspected shooters involved in the killing of a Dera Sacha Sauda follower have been arrested, Punjab Police said on Thursday.

Dera Sacha Sauda follower Pardeep Singh, 37, who was an accused in a 2015 sacrilege case, was shot dead on November 10 at his dairy shop in Kotkapura

A Special Investigation Team of the Haryana police on Monday questioned Dera Sacha Sauda chairperson Vipassana Insan in connection with several issues including the violence that broke out in Panchkula and Sirsa following the sect head's conviction in a rape case.

The Haryana police will soon interrogate Dera Sacha Sauda chairperson Vipassana Insan in connection with the violence that had broken out in Panchkula and Sirsa following the sect head's rape conviction.

As the Dera Sacha Sauda's headquarters in Haryana's Sirsa were searched over a week after the sect's leader Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh was jailed for rape, plastic money used by the self-claimed spiritual guru's followers was discovered.

Weapons, including double barrel and single barrel guns and pistols, have been deposited by followers of Sirsa headquartered Dera Sacha Sauda, the Haryana Police said today.

Self-styled godman and rape convict Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh will be sentenced this afternoon at a jail in Haryana's Rohtak, which has been turned into a fortress with multi-layered security and the police have warned that they may shoot at any sign of trouble

Self-styled spiritual guru Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh was on Monday sentenced to 20 years in prison for the rape of two women followers in 2002, by a judge who flew by government helicopter to conduct court at a prison in Haryana's Rohtak. The 50-year-old chief of the Dera Sacha Sauda sect sat on the floor and wept as he was sentenced. Ahead of the ju...

In the town of Sirsa, home to the sprawling headquarters of the Dera Sacha Sauda, shops owned by followers of the sect's flamboyant head Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh run a separate monetary system to tender change to customers.

The estimated 30,000 followers of self-styled guru Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, who were inside the headquarters of his sect, the Dera Sacha Sauda in Haryana's Sirsa, started moving out on Sunday evening. Around 6 pm, the security forces brought 100 state transport buses to ferry them out, resolving the stalemate that had been in continuing since Ram R...

Dera Sacha Sauda followers today started leaving the sect's headquarters in Sirsa, where they had gathered in large numbers before the rape conviction of self-styled godman Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, a senior police officer said.

Hours before self-styled spiritual guru Gurmeet Ram Rahim set out for Panchkula court from his sprawling 800-acre base in Sirsa on Friday, the Dera Sacha Sauda chief had put out a video message. In this, he was seen asking the tens of thousands of the Dera followers who had reached Panchkula to go back home.

There are at least 30,000 people in the massive 800-acre campus, the main base of Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh that the government wants to be vacated. A top army general says he is meeting Dera management to request the followers to clear out. T

Surender Kaur is unable to withdraw money from banks or ATMs for meet her daily household needs for the last two days while Manjeet Singh is not able to get the fuel tank of his motorbike filled at petrol pumps which are closed after authorities clamped strict restrictions in this town.

The Army has not been given any order so far to enter the Dera Sacha Sauda headquarters, Sirsa sub-divisional magistrate (SDM) Paramjit Singh Chahal said today, even as the defiant followers of self-styled godman Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh stayed put at the campus.

Two more suspected shooters involved in the killing of a Dera Sacha Sauda follower have been arrested, Punjab Police said on Thursday.

Dera Sacha Sauda follower Pardeep Singh, 37, who was an accused in a 2015 sacrilege case, was shot dead on November 10 at his dairy shop in Kotkapura

A Special Investigation Team of the Haryana police on Monday questioned Dera Sacha Sauda chairperson Vipassana Insan in connection with several issues including the violence that broke out in Panchkula and Sirsa following the sect head's conviction in a rape case.

The Haryana police will soon interrogate Dera Sacha Sauda chairperson Vipassana Insan in connection with the violence that had broken out in Panchkula and Sirsa following the sect head's rape conviction.

As the Dera Sacha Sauda's headquarters in Haryana's Sirsa were searched over a week after the sect's leader Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh was jailed for rape, plastic money used by the self-claimed spiritual guru's followers was discovered.

Weapons, including double barrel and single barrel guns and pistols, have been deposited by followers of Sirsa headquartered Dera Sacha Sauda, the Haryana Police said today.

Self-styled godman and rape convict Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh will be sentenced this afternoon at a jail in Haryana's Rohtak, which has been turned into a fortress with multi-layered security and the police have warned that they may shoot at any sign of trouble

Self-styled spiritual guru Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh was on Monday sentenced to 20 years in prison for the rape of two women followers in 2002, by a judge who flew by government helicopter to conduct court at a prison in Haryana's Rohtak. The 50-year-old chief of the Dera Sacha Sauda sect sat on the floor and wept as he was sentenced. Ahead of the ju...

In the town of Sirsa, home to the sprawling headquarters of the Dera Sacha Sauda, shops owned by followers of the sect's flamboyant head Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh run a separate monetary system to tender change to customers.

The estimated 30,000 followers of self-styled guru Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, who were inside the headquarters of his sect, the Dera Sacha Sauda in Haryana's Sirsa, started moving out on Sunday evening. Around 6 pm, the security forces brought 100 state transport buses to ferry them out, resolving the stalemate that had been in continuing since Ram R...

Dera Sacha Sauda followers today started leaving the sect's headquarters in Sirsa, where they had gathered in large numbers before the rape conviction of self-styled godman Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, a senior police officer said.

Hours before self-styled spiritual guru Gurmeet Ram Rahim set out for Panchkula court from his sprawling 800-acre base in Sirsa on Friday, the Dera Sacha Sauda chief had put out a video message. In this, he was seen asking the tens of thousands of the Dera followers who had reached Panchkula to go back home.

There are at least 30,000 people in the massive 800-acre campus, the main base of Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh that the government wants to be vacated. A top army general says he is meeting Dera management to request the followers to clear out. T

Surender Kaur is unable to withdraw money from banks or ATMs for meet her daily household needs for the last two days while Manjeet Singh is not able to get the fuel tank of his motorbike filled at petrol pumps which are closed after authorities clamped strict restrictions in this town.

The Army has not been given any order so far to enter the Dera Sacha Sauda headquarters, Sirsa sub-divisional magistrate (SDM) Paramjit Singh Chahal said today, even as the defiant followers of self-styled godman Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh stayed put at the campus.