Hindustan Times (Amritsar)

SIRSA: DRONES, 12K COPS, TWO CRPF COMPANIES TO KEEP VIGIL

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Sirsa police and administra­tion are leaving nothing to chance as a CBI court is set to pronounce the quantum of sentence in the journalist Ram Chander Chhatrapat­i murder case on Thursday in which Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh has been convicted.

The Sirsa police have called additional two companies of Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) to maintain law and order situation in the city that houses dera headquarte­rs.

The forces on Wednesday also took out a flag march amid the alert that has been sounded in adjoining Hisar and Fatehabad districts.

The Fatehabad deputy commission­er (DC), JK Abhir, has imposed prohibitor­y orders under Section 144 of the CrPC.

A large number of Dera Sacha Sauda followers are from Fatehabad that is just 40km away from Sirsa.

More than 1,200 officials of Haryana Police are on stand by, who on Wednesday were joined by CRPF companies — one women and another men. As many as 38 duty magistrate­s will be in touch with the forces to keep strict vigil during the quantum.

Shobha Insan, who is currently looking after the administra­tion work at the dera, had on January 11 in her tweet requested the dera followers to maintain peace and not to spread any kind of tension.

Sirsa deputy superinten­dent of police (DSP) Ravinder Tomar said, “One naka has been laid at Shah Satnam Chowk on Begu Road, second near Jagdamba paper mill, another one near the 132KV power station, one near Vita milk plant and one outside the dera headquarte­rs. No one will be allowed to breach the law.” “There will also be drones to monitor every situation in Sirsa,” DSP Tomar added.

 ?? HT ?? ■ Police carrying out a flag march in Sirsa on Wednesday.
HT ■ Police carrying out a flag march in Sirsa on Wednesday.

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