{"id":26294,"date":"2017-09-08T13:49:30","date_gmt":"2017-09-08T08:19:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/?p=26294"},"modified":"2017-09-08T13:51:40","modified_gmt":"2017-09-08T08:21:40","slug":"sirsa-shutdown-security-forces-sanitise-rapist-godman-ram-rahim-singhs-dera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/india-news\/sirsa-shutdown-security-forces-sanitise-rapist-godman-ram-rahim-singhs-dera\/","title":{"rendered":"Sirsa shutdown as security forces \u2018sanitise\u2019 rapist godman Ram Rahim Singh\u2019s Dera"},"content":{"rendered":"
Police,41 companies of paramilitary forces led by retired sessions judge AKS Pawar in Sirsa to carry out probe ordered by Punjab and Haryana HC at Dera Sacha Sauda headquarters<\/em><\/p>\n A massive \u201csanitation exercise\u201d is currently underway at convicted rapist Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh\u2019s Dera Sacha Sauda headquarters in Haryana\u2019s Sirsa district. The search operations that were ordered by the Punjab and Haryana High Court are being overseen by retired District and Sessions Judge AKS Pawar, who was appointed as Court Commissioner for the probe\u00a0on Tuesday<\/p>\n The entire sanitisation process will be videographed and is out of bounds for the media. Curfew remains enforced on the road leading to the Dera headquarters and no unauthorised person will be allowed to enter the Dera premises till the operation is completed.<\/p>\n Sources privy to the operation said that an undisclosed amount of cash, some weapons, computers, hard disks and various document ts have been seized from the Dera premises and details of these may be made public once the entire proceedings are completed.<\/p>\n However, there have also been startling revelations of a large number of skeletons being recovered from the Dera premises, which according to some Dera insiders who spoke on condition of anonymity, were of the corpses \u201cdonated to the hospital located inside the Dera headquarters for the purpose of research\u201d. The forensic team from Roorkee is expected to arrive at the Dera premises later in the day to analyse these skeletons.<\/p>\n Deputy director (information), Satish Mehra informed that the next course of action with regard to the sanitization operation will be decided by\u00a0Friday\u00a0evening after meeting between administration officials and Court Commissioner Pawar.<\/p>\n A large number of vehicles, including police buses and paramilitary vehicles, Quick Reaction Team vehicles, bomb disposal squads and anti-sabotage team vehicles, carrying cops and paramilitary personnel along with a posse of administration officials drawn from various government departments are part of the mammoth exercise, sources said. Fire tenders, heavy earth moving machines and tractors have also been pressed into service for the sanitisation exercise.<\/p>\n \u201cWe have formed a strategy and are hopeful that the sanitisation process will be conducted in a smooth manner. The Dera management too has expressed willingness to cooperate with the local administration and police during investigation,\u201d said Haryana\u2019s Director General of Police (DGP) BS Sandhu in Chandigarh.<\/p>\n