Jaipal SinghTHE MOHALI district administration has evicted around 2 lakh Dera Sacha Sauda followers through Zirakpur and Derabassi in the last 24 hours. The last group of around 700 Dera followers was evicted at around 8 am on Saturday. Officials said the entire operation of evicting the Dera followers was peaceful and no untoward incident occurred. Speaking to Chandigarh Newsline, Deputy Commissioner Gurpreet Kaur Sapra said they made arrangements after the Panchkula administration contacted them to evict the Dera followers. We still have some vehicles on stand by and if any Dera followers are left, we will evict them.

Source: Indian Express August 27, 2017 00:22 UTC