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6 Dera Sacha Sauda followers arrested in Punjab

Six followers of Dera Sacha Sauda were arrested for allegedly damaging a petrol pump and a car at Chal village…

PTI | Faridkot | September 2, 2017 6:38 pm

6 Dera Sacha Sauda followers arrested in Punjab

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Six followers of Dera Sacha Sauda were arrested for allegedly damaging a petrol pump and a car at Chal village near here, the police said today.

The Dera followers damaged the petrol pump and a car on August 25 after the sect head Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh was convicted by a CBI court in Panchkula in a 2002 rape case.

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The police claimed that the arrested Dera followers tried to set the petrol pump on fire, but failed to do so.

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The Dera followers were arrested yesterday, the police said.

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