Vehicles targeted by Dera Sacha Sauda followers in Panchkula, Haryana

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Viewer discretion advised due to possible graphic content. Dera Sacha Sauda followers target various vehicles and burn them down as a form of protest for takig their chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh to the court. Various buses, bikes and other vehicles smoked up in flames. Fire Brigrade engines arrive and extinguishes the fire.Bikes are seem to be almost reduced to ashes. The Haryana police arrested a close associate of Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh in Sirsa on the charge that he castrated several followers of the religious sect.In 2002, an anonymous letter took on Gurmeet Ram Rahim and Dera Sacha Sauda with allegations of rape against the "messenger of God". The letter, purportedly written by a sadhvi of the Dera Sachcha Sauda, claimed that Gurmeet Ram Rahim raped her repea