Tag: Asaram

By Bhavdeep Kang, Murder, rape, castration, abduction — a rap sheet as long as his arm and yet Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh Insan’s followers are ‘ready to die’ for him. Many of those who sought to intimidate the state government and judiciary by converging in large numbers on Haryana’s Panchkula town (where the verdict in the rape case against him will be read) in support of the ‘Love Charger’ guru, are well-educated, wealthy and socially prominent; certainly not wild-eyed fanatics. The question of why mentally sound individuals are...