You let the city burn for political gains: High Court slams Haryana government

CHANDIGARH: The Punjab and Haryana High Court on Saturday castigated the Manohar Lal Khattar government over the deadly violence that erupted in the state, saying it had “surrendered” before the followers of Dera Sacha Sauda head Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh for “political considerations”.

At a special hearing, a full bench of the court minced no words in slamming the CM for “protecting” the Dera followers and extending political patronage to them.

The court observed that the BJP government seemed to have “surrendered before the followers of Dera Sacha Sauda for political considerations”.


“This was a political surrender to allure vote bank,” it observed a day after Dera followers went on a rampage across Haryana, following the conviction of the selfstyled godman in a rape case by a court in Panchkula.