05-18-2007, 03:30 AM
<b>Central forces rushed to Punjab, Haryana</b>
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->In a late-night development, the Centre decided to rush 125 companies of RAF, BSF and CRPF to different cities in Punjab and Haryana in a bid to contain the violence.
<b>Forces also remained deployed in parts of west Delhi where the authorities feared trouble. </b>As Punjab's administrative machinery, clearly at sea, failed to control frenzied mobs baying for each other's blood,<b> calls went out for imposition of Presidentâs rule to prevent the state from descending into chaos.</b>
The entire state went into spasms of violence and fear as clashes on the fourth day killed Kamaljit Singh, a Sangrur resident, in Sunam.
<b>At least 15 others received serious gunshot wounds, with eight believed to be critical, after Dera supporters in Salawatpur, surrounded by a mob, opened fire. A police contingent which was there failed to stop the rampaging groups, too scared and too unprepared to retaliate.</b>
When reports last came in, about 20,000 Sikh youths were on their way to attack and empty out another Dera shelter in Sangrur with at least 5,000 followers of Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, leader the Sacha Sauda cult, inside the colony<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->In a late-night development, the Centre decided to rush 125 companies of RAF, BSF and CRPF to different cities in Punjab and Haryana in a bid to contain the violence.
<b>Forces also remained deployed in parts of west Delhi where the authorities feared trouble. </b>As Punjab's administrative machinery, clearly at sea, failed to control frenzied mobs baying for each other's blood,<b> calls went out for imposition of Presidentâs rule to prevent the state from descending into chaos.</b>
The entire state went into spasms of violence and fear as clashes on the fourth day killed Kamaljit Singh, a Sangrur resident, in Sunam.
<b>At least 15 others received serious gunshot wounds, with eight believed to be critical, after Dera supporters in Salawatpur, surrounded by a mob, opened fire. A police contingent which was there failed to stop the rampaging groups, too scared and too unprepared to retaliate.</b>
When reports last came in, about 20,000 Sikh youths were on their way to attack and empty out another Dera shelter in Sangrur with at least 5,000 followers of Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, leader the Sacha Sauda cult, inside the colony<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Video
http://broadband.indiatimes.com/videoshow/2058205.cms