Скачать или смотреть Indian security forces on alert following riots

(26 Aug 2017) Security forces were checking vehicles along roads leading to several north Indian towns on Saturday, where supporters of a quasi-religious sect leader protested his rape conviction the night before leading to violent confrontations that left at least 32 people dead.
Officials shut down a MSG Store in Sonipat, Haryana, an organic consumer store that sells products made by the convicted guru's Dera Sacha Sauda sect.
Authorities have appealed to thousands of followers of the guru, who calls himself Saint Dr. Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh Ji Insaan, to vacate his headquarters in Sirsa, a town in Haryana state, and go home.
After a court declared Ram Rahim Singh guilty of raping two of his followers 15 years ago, mobs set fire to government buildings on Friday, vandalised bus stations and government vehicles, and attacked police officers and TV journalists in the town of Panchkula, 250 kilometres (155 miles) north of Sirsa.
The sect claims to have about 50 million followers and campaigns for vegetarianism and against drug addiction.
.

Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork
Twitter:   / ap_archive  
Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​
Instagram:   / apnews  


You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...