OBSCURE OUTFIT, OUTLANDISH DEMANDS
The Swadhin Bharat Vidhik Satyagrah sect claim to follow Subhash Chandra Bose’s ideology
FROM SAGAR TO MATHURA
The group emerged from among
followers of a powerful religious figure Baba Gurudev, who died four years ago
In 2014, the sect’s members
began a march from Sagar, Madhya Pradesh, to New Delhi in support of a raft of bizarre demands
They travelled through several
states before settling down in Jawahar Bagh, the public park in Mathura that they squatted on until Thursday
Sect’s leader Ram Vriksha Yadav’s is seen during Thursday’s clashes. He has since escaped.