{"id":704,"date":"2018-01-14T11:31:14","date_gmt":"2018-01-14T11:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/?p=704"},"modified":"2018-01-14T11:31:14","modified_gmt":"2018-01-14T11:31:14","slug":"high-court-allows-haryana-police-to-raid-dera-sacha-sauda-headquarters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/high-court-allows-haryana-police-to-raid-dera-sacha-sauda-headquarters\/","title":{"rendered":"High Court allows Haryana police to raid Dera Sacha Sauda headquarters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ng-scope\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 20px 0px 0px; color: #363636; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; font-family: 'Roboto Slab', serif !important;\"><span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;\">Source &#8211;\u00a0timesnownews.com<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ng-scope\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 20px 0px 0px; color: #363636; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; font-family: 'Roboto Slab', serif !important;\"><span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;\">Chandigarh:\u00a0<\/span>The Punjab and Haryana High Court on Tuesday allowed the Haryana police and the district administration to search the Dera Sacha Sauda headquarters in Sirsa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ng-scope\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 20px 0px 0px; color: #363636; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; font-family: 'Roboto Slab', serif !important;\">The searches will be conducted under the supervision of a judicial officer, the high court said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ng-scope\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 20px 0px 0px; color: #363636; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; font-family: 'Roboto Slab', serif !important;\">Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar had on Monday stated and the administration will enter the sect&#8217;s headquarters at Sirsa only after the Punjab and Haryana High Court appoints a judicial magistrate for the purpose.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ng-scope\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 20px 0px 0px; color: #363636; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; font-family: 'Roboto Slab', serif !important;\">The high court order comes a day after Dera supporters\u00a0surrendered around 33 high-powered guns\u00a0to the police that was present at the gates of the Dera headquarters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ng-scope\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 20px 0px 0px; color: #363636; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; font-family: 'Roboto Slab', serif !important;\">The police will now conduct extensive searches of the\u00a0sprawling campus of the Dera Sacha Sauda at Sirsa, spread over 800 acres.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ng-scope\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 20px 0px 0px; color: #363636; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; font-family: 'Roboto Slab', serif !important;\">The High Court had earlier taken up a PIL filed by Ravinder Dhull, a Panchkula resident, who had raised concerns over the law and order situation and stated that over 1.5 lakh people had reportedly entered the district earlier despite prohibitory orders.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ng-scope\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 20px 0px 0px; color: #363636; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; font-family: 'Roboto Slab', serif !important;\"><span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;\">Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh wants Honeypreet Insan, not wife, to visit him in jail<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ng-scope\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 20px 0px 0px; color: #363636; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; font-family: 'Roboto Slab', serif !important;\">Violence broke out there after Dera chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh&#8217;s conviction in rape cases, leaving at least 35 people dead. Six others died in incidents of violence in Sirsa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ng-scope\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 20px 0px 0px; color: #363636; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; font-family: 'Roboto Slab', serif !important;\">Ram Rahim was later sentenced to 20 years in prison. The Haryana government had come under attack for allowing a huge build up of Dera Sacha Sauda followers in Panchkula. Earlier, Khattar had said the violence could have turned much worse had the government not been alert.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ng-scope\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 20px 0px 0px; color: #363636; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; font-family: 'Roboto Slab', serif !important;\">He said the state government had taken steps after due consideration in compliance with the directions of the Punjab and Haryana High Court.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ng-scope\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 20px 0px 0px; color: #363636; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; font-family: 'Roboto Slab', serif !important;\">&#8220;Had the government had not been alert, the situation could have been much worse,&#8221; he said, adding, &#8220;Our priority was to produce Dera chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh in the court to avoid a situation like the one during the arrest of Rampal in Barwala (in 2014).&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ng-scope\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 20px 0px 0px; color: #363636; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; font-family: 'Roboto Slab', serif !important;\">On August 30, Khattar had ruled out his resignation after meeting BJP chief Amit Shah in Delhi, saying his government had acted with &#8220;restraint&#8221; in handling the situation.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/high-court-allows-haryana-police-to-raid-dera-sacha-sauda-headquarters\/\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"5\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground:  !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 100% !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source &#8211;\u00a0timesnownews.com Chandigarh:\u00a0The Punjab and Haryana High Court on Tuesday allowed the Haryana police and the district administration to search the Dera Sacha Sauda headquarters in Sirsa. The searches will be conducted under the supervision of a judicial officer, the high court said. Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar had on Monday stated and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1000,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[184,26],"class_list":["post-704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-haryana-police","tag-high-court"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=704"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1001,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704\/revisions\/1001"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}