12 dead after Indian guru’s rape conviction triggers riots

By SHONAL GANGULY and NIRMALA GEORGE
PANCHKULA, India  — Mobs rampaged across a north Indian town, leaving 12 people dead and buildings in flames, after a court declared a quasi-religious sect leader guilty of raping two of his followers, according to police and a hospital doctor.
Police used water cannon in an attempt to disperse the crowd. More than 15,000 paramilitary troops and police officers, some on horseback, were deployed in the town of Panchkula.
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