 "People stand near a train coach vandalised by Dera Sacha Sauda followers at Anand Vihar railway station in New Delhi on Friday, following the sect’s chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh’s conviction on Friday Photo: PTI")
A special Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court here on Friday convicted self-styled godman Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh in a 2002 rape case, triggering widespread violence and arson by his supporters in Punjab and Haryana.
At least 30 people were killed and more than 250 injured in the violence that left a trail of destruction and vandalism, a Haryana government official said.
CBI judge Jagdeep Singh held Ram Rahim, the 50-year-old Dera Sacha Sauda chief, guilty of rape in a case registered on the basis of an anonymous written complaint in 2002 that alleged he had sexually exploited
At least 30 people were killed and more than 250 injured in the violence that left a trail of destruction and vandalism, a Haryana government official said.
CBI judge Jagdeep Singh held Ram Rahim, the 50-year-old Dera Sacha Sauda chief, guilty of rape in a case registered on the basis of an anonymous written complaint in 2002 that alleged he had sexually exploited
