life was returning to normal in Haryana and Punjab, which had witnessed violence after the conviction of the Dera Sacha Sauda chief, with educational institutions and shops reopening on Wednesday and transport back on most routes in sensitive areas.
However, security forces continued to remain on alert in the two states. No untoward incident has been reported from anywhere after the Dera chief was sentenced by a special CBI court.
The 50-year-old Dera chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim is lodged in Sunaria jail in Rohtak district, where a thick blanket of security has been thrown around. In Haryana, curfew now remains enforced only on the road leading to the Dera Sacha Sauda headquarter in Sirsa. life was back to normal in Sirsa city on Wednesday.
The Army, paramilitary forces and police continued to be deployed at various nakas in Sirsa city as a precautionary measure, Sirsa Deputy Commissioner, Prabhjot Singh said.
The Sirsa district administration on Tuesday sent 650 people from Dera Sacha Sauda to their respective destinations and apart from this, 18 girls aged upto 18 years were also taken out from the Dera after completing all legal formalities, the DC said. Sirsa town is home to the sprawling Dera headquarters where the sects followers had gathered in large numbers ahead of Ram Rahim's conviction.
Curfew had earlier been lifted from other towns of Haryana where it was imposed including Panchkula and Kaithal.
