In times of trial a child’s place is near the father, they believe. So they went, thousands of obedient sons and daughters marching the roads of India together.
All
week, followers of the Dera Sacha Sauda religious sect converged on the
city of Panchkula, where a court found Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh guilty
Friday of raping two followers, according to news reports. Police put the town on a security lockdown, the Associated Press reported.
In
the wake of the ruling, authorities in both Haryana and the neighboring
state of Punjab, also on high alert, battled against outbreaks of
unrest against police and the news media by followers of the
headline-grabbing Singh, known as the “guru of bling.”
At least 28 people were killed and 250 injured in the widening clashes, authorities said, according to the AP.
India’s ‘guru of bling’ is convicted of raping two followers. After the verdict, deadly violence breaks out. - The Washington Post
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