{"id":15707,"date":"2017-08-25T20:13:40","date_gmt":"2017-08-25T15:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=15707"},"modified":"2017-08-25T20:13:40","modified_gmt":"2017-08-25T15:13:40","slug":"28-killed-dozens-hurt-in-india-riots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=15707","title":{"rendered":"28 killed, dozens hurt in India riots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>New Delhi, August 25 (TNS):<\/strong> At least 28 people have been killed and dozens other wounded in violent protests over the rape conviction of a popular religious leader in Indian Punjab n neighboring states.<\/p>\n<p>The victims are believed to be Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh&#8217;s followers. Angry supporters are rampaging through Panchkula town, near Chandigarh.<\/p>\n<p>Reports of widespread vandalism are coming in. At least two railway stations have been set on fire.<\/p>\n<p>About 2,500 of Singh&#8217;s followers have been arrested, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, followers smashed cars and set media vans alight.<\/p>\n<p>The latest death toll was reported by Indian media and Associated Press, quoting the chief medical officer of Panchkula&#8217;s hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Singh, who claims to have millions of disciples, was found guilty of raping two women at the headquarters of his sect, known as Dera Sacha Sauda, in 2002.<\/p>\n<p>More than 200,000 of his followers had flocked to the Chandigarh area ahead of Friday&#8217;s verdict.<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of army, police and paramilitary forces have been deployed. They fired tear-gas canisters and water cannon into the crowd to try to restore control.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi, August 25 (TNS): At least 28 people have been killed and dozens other wounded in violent protests over the rape conviction of a popular religious leader in Indian Punjab n neighboring states. The victims are believed to be Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh&#8217;s followers. Angry supporters are rampaging through Panchkula town, near Chandigarh. Reports [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15708,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[172,733],"class_list":["post-15707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-new-dehli","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15707"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15709,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15707\/revisions\/15709"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}