6 Dera Sacha Sauda followers arrested

FARIDKOT: Six followers of Dera Sacha Sauda were arrested for allegedly damaging a petrol pump and a car at Chal village near here, the police said today.

The Dera followers damaged the petrol pump and a car on August 25 after the sect head Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh was convicted by a CBI court in Panchkula in a 2002 rape case.

The police claimed that the arrested Dera followers tried to set the petrol pump on fire, but failed to do so.