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Sikh demonstrators paralyse rail routes in Punjab
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The Hindustan Times
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June 25, 2008
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Sirhind (Amritsar), June 25 -- Sikh demonstrators on Wednesday blocked railway routes in Punjab demanding action against the Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, over the alleged murder of a sikh youth by his bodyguards.
On June 21, a Sikh man in Mulund, a suburb of Mumbai, was allegedly killed by the security guards of Ram Rahim, who opened fire on Sikh protesters outside a shopping mall.
Damdami Taksal, a hardline Sikh organization had called for a blockade on the busy Delhi-Amritsar train route.
In a sit-in protest at Sirhind railway station of Fatehgarh Sahib District, the organization demanded arrest of ...