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Saturday August 18, 2007

Police question dera chief, confiscate offending dress

A Punjab Police team arrived here Friday morning to interrogate the sect chief who is accused of hurting religious sentiments of the Sikh community by attiring himself like 10th Sikh guru Gobind Singh earlier this year.
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Wednesday August 1, 2007

Dera Sacha Sauda:

CBI charges Dera chief with rape, murder

After dilly-dallying for years in one of its most sensitive cases, the CBI has finally chargesheeted the controversial chief of Dera Sacha Sauda, Baba Gurmit Ram Rahim Singh, for allegedly raping two sadhvis (women followers) of his Sirsa-based religious cult and conspiring for the murder of two persons, including a local journalist who tried to expose his ‘misdeeds’ through his articles.
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Wednesday May 30, 2007

Dera Sacha Sauda • Sikhism:

Sikh priests reject apology over guru adverts

Sikh priests have rejected an apology from a religious sect for adverts showing its leader dressed as a revered guru, which triggered violence in Punjab, a senior cleric said on Wednesday.
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Monday May 28, 2007

Dera Sacha Sauda • Sikhism:

Religious sect apologises for Sikh insult

A religious sect has apologised for adverts showing its leader dressed as a revered Sikh guru, which triggered violence in India’s Punjab state, reports said on Monday.
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Monday May 21, 2007

Dera Sacha Sauda • Sikhism:

Cult leader sparks Sikh riots with guru stunt

The Indian state of Punjab has been set alight by some of the worst rioting in a decade after a newspaper advert placed by the leader of a controversial religious sect sparked outrage in the region’s Sikh community.
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Saturday May 19, 2007

Dera Sacha Sauda • Sikhism:

What is behind Sikh protests?

Clashes between India’s long-established Sikh community and a religious sect in the northern Indian state of Punjab have left one person dead and dozens others injured.
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Friday May 18, 2007

Dera Sacha Sauda • Sikhism:

Religious Violence in Eastern Punjab

The Sikh community in Punjab stood up against a religious leader, Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, of the Dera Sacha Sauda religious sect. Members of this sect believe that all religions are equal and no religion is superior or inferior.
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Monday September 5, 2005

Dera Sacha Sauda:

CBI arrests one in Dera Sachha Sauda case

New Delhi, Sep 4 (PTI) CBI, probing the alleged sexual exploitation of "sadhvis" in a 'dera' (settlement) run by a particular sect near Sirsa in Haryana, has arrested one person and recovered weapons used for killing one of the members of a committee running it.
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Friday July 15, 2005

Dera Sacha Sauda:

CBI team probing scribe’s murder blamed on religious cult

A three-member CBI team has arrived here to investigate the murder of a local journalist in 2002, blamed on members of a local religious cult.
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Monday December 30, 2002

Dera Sacha Sauda:

Probe demanded into activities of ‘Dera Sacha Sauda’

PTI, Dec. 27, 2002
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Sunday December 22, 2002

Dera Sacha Sauda:

Godman under a cloud

Frontline (Magazine of The Hindu), Volume 19 - Issue 26, December 21, 2002 - January 03, 2003
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Saturday November 30, 2002

Dera Sacha Sauda:

Haryana journalists demand CBI probe into scribe’s murder

Indo-Asian News Service, Nov. 30, 2002
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Friday November 22, 2002

Dera Sacha Sauda:

Haryana scribe murdered, secret cult under scrutiny

NDTV (India), Nov. 22, 2002
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Dera Sacha Sauda:

Editor pays with his life for exposing sex scandal

IndiaExpress, Nov. 22, 2002
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