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12 Dera followers
arrested for rioting
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Austria police identify assailant VIENNA: The Vienna police has disclosed the identities of
five of the six assailants who attacked Dera Sachkhand Ballan
head Sant Niranjan Dass and his deputy Sant Rama Nand on Sunday.
The five names given are Sukhwinder Singh, Jaswinder Singh,
Hardeep Singh, Tarsem Singh and Satwinder Singh. Three of them
were asylum seekers.
Some are local residents associated with the Sikh gurdwara in
Vienna’s district No. 21. Details are very sketchy and have many
holes. Some Sikhs living in Austria have dissociated from the
attack and circulated an open letter denouncing the incident in
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Jalandhar: Police has arrested 12 Dera Sachkhand Ballan
followers for ransacking and setting afire a portion of a UCO Bank
branch,ATMs, petrol pumps, shops and liquor vends at Adampur, about
15 km from here.
DSP (Rural) Manjit Singh said a mob of nearly 250 protesters
targeted a major part of Adampur on Monday night. They barged into
the UCO Bank branch and attempted to set it ablaze entirely, besides
damaging computers and other equipment.
They also ransacked two petrol pumps and nearly 20 shops, and set
afire two ATMs and tried to damage police vehicles.
A case under Sections 435,436, 427, 379, 380, 188, 148 and
149 of the IPC has been registered against them. The accused were
later produced before the Duty Magistrate, who remanded them in
judicial custody for 14 days. DSP Manjit Singh said the rest of the
accused had been identified and raids were being conducted to nab
them.
27 May 2009
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