TIL Desk/National/Sirsa(Haryana)/ A mammoth exercise to carry out “sanitization” of the sprawling Dera Sacha Sauda sect headquarters was underway here today with security forces and various government departments coordinating closely amid tight security.
The entire sanitization process will be video graphed and is being overseen by retired District and Sessions Judge, A K S Pawar, who was appointed as Court Commissioner by the Punjab and Haryana High Court on Tuesday. Curfew remains enforced on the road leading to the Dera headquarters. No unauthorised person was being allowed to go inside Dera premises.
A large number of vehicles including police buses and paramilitary vehicles, Quick Reaction Team vehicles, bomb disposal squad and anti-sabotage team vehicles, carrying cops and paramilitary personnel and vehicles of the district administration carrying officials drawn from various government departments made their way inside the Dera premises in the morning, officials said.
Besides, some fire tenders, heavy earth moving machines and tractors have also been pressed into service for the sanitization exercise.”We have formed a strategy and are hopeful that the sanitization process will be conducted in a smooth manner. The Dera management too has expressed willingness to cooperate with the local administration and police during the investigation,” Haryana Police DGP B S Sandhu said in Chandigarh yesterday.
