The monthly food bill came to Rs 25 lakh at Mathura's Jawahar Bagh, which cult leader Ram Briksh Yadav and 3,000 followers had forcibly occupied for two years and declared a "free nation", police said today.


Tents worth Rs 11 lakh were pitched on the 60-acre public park alongside 1,500 illegally built single-room wooden quarters, a 2,000sqft community kitchen, an in-house school, 40 makeshift toilets and a storeroom stacked with thousands of soap bars.


A fleet of 12 luxury cars including a Land Rover bore testimony to the comfortable lifestyle the cult leader and his lieutenants enjoyed. All the cars were damaged and half-burnt, and most bore Madhya Pradesh registration numbers, police sources said. Read more