Chandigarh Aug 26 (IANS) Army and paramilitary forces moved in to get the Dera Sacha Sauda headquarters vacated near Sirsa town in Haryana on Saturday a day after the sect chief was convicted of rape sparking large-scale violence by his supporters.
There are still thousands of Dera followers inside the sect headquarters around 260 km from here sources said.
On Friday tens of thousands of supporters of Dera chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh went on the rampage in Haryana and Punjab to vent their anger against the court verdict.
--IANS
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