I told my wife, who was sitting beside me, to stay calm, but yet the fear was evident in her eyes,” Balraj Katiyal, a nonagenarian residing in Sector 4 of Panchkula, told The Hindu. “Even before the verdict, the way the number of Dera supporters was swelling in the city was creating a sense of fear among us. While the situation is calm now, the past three or four days were frightening,” he said. The day the Dera supporters created mayhem, the city’s sky was covered in smoke. Soon they [Dera supporters] attacked the security forces.

Source: The Hindu August 27, 2017 16:18 UTC