3 Dera Sacha Sauda men booked on court directions

Faridkot, March 5

The police have registered a criminal case against three Dera Sacha Sauda followers at the Bajakhana police station in Faridkot.

Harish Dhuri, Pardeep Kaler and Sandeep Bareta, all central committee members of the dera, have been booked under Section 174A on the directions of a judicial court here.

All these office-bearers in the dera are accused in connection with the theft of a ‘bir’ of Guru Granth Sahib from a gurdwara in Burj Jawahar Singh Wala on June 1, 2015.

As per the investigation by a special investigation team of the police probing the sacrilege cases, the accused, along with dera head Gurmeet Ram Rahim, were part of a conspiracy in the theft of the ‘bir’, which led to Behbal Kalan and Kotkapura police firing incidents.

In January this year, the court had declared all these accused proclaimed offenders in the sacrilege case.

As they failed to appear before the court, the latter directed the police to book them under Section 174A of the IPC. The court also directed the police to procure the list of all properties in the name of the accused so that these could be attached to procure their appearance before the court. — TNS