Ram Rahim sentencing: Both the Haryana Special CBI judge Jagdeep Singh and Ram Rahim's lawyer SK Narwana reaches Rohtak's Sonaria jail for the quantum of sentence hearing which will be held inside the makeshift court in Rohtak jail.

The sentencing is expected to at 2:30 pm. Following the conviction of Ram Rahim, there were 28 incidents of arson, besides damage to state, central government offices or properties in seven districts of the Malwa region in Punjab.

Special Forces and the police are at alert and barricades have been put at about three kilometers from the jail where Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh is locked up, ahead of the court proceedings against the rape convict.

According to recent reports, the media is also stationed near the barricades that have been put around the Sunaria Jail in Rohtak.Also, shoot-at-sight orders have been issued for anybody, who tries to venture inside the boundary or who tries to harm himself or others prior to or in the aftermath of the sentencing.


IMAGE: The unrest which began in Panchkula on Friday spread to other parts of Haryana and Punjab and New Delhi. Photograph: Vijay Verma/PTI Photo