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Gurmeet Ram Rahim Rape Case Verdict: Mobile Internet Services Suspended In Punjab, Haryana

Written By : ABP News Bureau | Updated at : 24 Aug 2017 05:14 PM (IST)

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He said 10 senior IPS officers have been deployed and two Director General level officers of Police Department have also been appointed to ensure peace and maintaining law and order in the state. In addition, 100 duty magistrates have been appointed at various locations. Action is being taken by the civil and police administration on the basis of intelligence inputs, he added. (Photo: PTI)

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In Panchkula near Chandigarh, thousands of Dera supporters, including women and elderly, arrived and were camping in parks and open spaces. More 'premis', as the Dera followers are known, were pouring in. (Photo: PTI)

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He said a joint control room of Haryana and Punjab would be set up at Control Room, Sector-9, Chandigarh where one police officer of both the States would be deployed for better coordination between police administration to maintain law and order in view of the court judgement in the Dera chief case. (Photo: PTI)

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According to a Northern Railway spokesperson, 22 trains to Punjab and 7 to Haryana have been cancelled. The trains would have made 74 trips over the next four days. (Photo: PTI)

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Curfew has been imposed in Sirsa, three nearby villages from tonight ahead of verdict in case against Dera Sacha Sauda, PTI said quoting its sources. (Photo: PTI)

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For his followers, who gathered in the thousands in Panchkula ahead of a verdict in the case of rape and criminal intimidation, their leader is all this and more. The bejewelled head of the Sirsa headquartered sect, who turned 50 this Independence Day, holds sway over millions in Haryana, Punjab and Rajasthan. (Photo: PTI)

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An official spokesperson said that all the offices, boards, corporations, agencies and public sector organisations of the Punjab government will remain closed on Friday. (Photo: PTI)

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Mobile Internet services have been suspended for 72 hours in Haryana, Punjab and Chandigarh, ahead of the court verdict in the sexual exploitation case against the Dera Sacha Sauda sect head on Friday. (Photo: PTI)