Janjivan Bureau / Sirsa : Cash, computers, an unregistered car, a broadcast van and “plastic money” find in search operation from rapist Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh. Police and forensics officials entered the Sira, Haryana campus with a security cover that included commandos, police canines and 4,000 paramilitary soldiers, and the district administration shut down mobile internet services for two days to thwart backlash from Dera members.
Followers of Singh ran riot last month hours after his conviction, destroying crores in public and private property before police opened fire to stop them. More than 30 people were killed in the violence.
On Friday, Sirsa and surrounding regions were tense as the sanitisation exercise began. “Pharmacy medicines without label, OB van, Lexus car without number found inside the dera,” said Satish Mehra, the deputy director of Haryana government’s public relations department. Mehra added that cash had also been found, but it was yet to be counted.
Hours before the sanitation drive began, the mouthpiece of the spiritual cult said that skeletons were buried inside the campus, which is spread in two clusters of 600 acres and 100 acres. The campus includes a stadium, a resort, a hospital, educational institutions and sprawling bungalows of the sect’s leaders. Most members were permanent residents of the township, which followed its own currency.
