SIRSA (Haryana): Security agencies found a tunnel and a passageway connecting Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh's quarters to the hostel of his female disciples during a massive sanitisation exercise inside the headquarters of the Dera Sacha Sauda. Also found was an illegal fire cracker factory along with chemicals.
A passageway was found from the “gufa” where the cult chief used to stay, opening to “Sadhvi Niwas', where his female disciples were kept. The official spokesman said, “A fibre tunnel too has been located during the search of the dera. The derawas is connected to Sadhvi Niwas.” He said some chemical material used in making fire crackers was also found. An empty box for cartridges of AK-47 was also recovered during the search.
Hordes of police, paramilitary, and civil administration personnel were involved in the massive search operation that was conducted on the direction of Punjab and Haryana High Court. An unregistered luxury car and some banned currency notes were seized during the exercise. Hard disk drives and unlabelled medicines were recovered during the operation. The entire sanitisation process is being videographed and overseen by retired District and Sessions Judge AKS Pawar, who was appointed as Court Commissioner by the high court.
Curfew remains in force in the area around the premises. A large number of vehicles, including police buses and paramilitary vehicles, Quick Reaction Team vehicles, bomb disposal squad and anti-sabotage team vehicles, carrying cops and paramilitary personnel made their way inside the dera premises. Also, vehicles of the district administration carrying officials drawn from various government departments also made their way inside the dera premises.
Inciting violence
The special investigation team probing the violence, meanwhile, revealed that Dera members Aditya Insaan, Honeypreet Insaan and Surender Dhiman Insaan had pumped at least £5,00,000 to fuel violence after Ram Rahim's conviction. The investigations revealed that dera's Panchkula branch head Chamkaur Singh was the key person in procuring and spending the money received from dera management. Chamkaur, a resident of Dhakoli in Mohali district, has gone along missing with his family after the registration of sedition case against him on the HC direction on August 28.
