In Photos: Panchkula Burns As Dera Sacha Sauda Followers Run Amok

Images of the havoc wrecked by members of the Gurmeet Ram Rahim’s sect.

Vehicles were burnt in Panchkula

(Photo Courtesy: PT)

On Friday, the CBI Court convicted Dera Sacha Sauda Chief Ram Rahim Singh in a rape case and put him in judicial custody. Following the court’s verdict, members of Ram Rahim Singh’s sect went on a frenzied rampage.

We bring to you photographs of the havoc wrecked by members of the sect, which shook the city of Panchkula– and the entire country by extension.

Vehicles burning in Panchkula

A limp body of a man being carried after having been attacked.

Clouds of smoke hovered over Panchkula. 

Reports suggest journalists were also attacked and buildings were set on fire.

Media personnel walking past burning  vehicles.

People stand near vandalised train coaches in New Delhi.

Parts of Delhi came under mob attack as well. A train parked in New Delhi’s Anand Vihar was torched.

Defence troops walking past a vandalised vehicle. 

More than 15,000 paramilitary troops and police officers were deployed in Panchkula. Some even came on horseback.

A burnt vehicle.

An image of charred vehicles in Panchkula.

Around 30 people are estimated to have been killed in the mob violence.
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