PANCHKULA, India—Indian authorities have arrested hundreds of people and canceled more than 300 trains passing through two northern states after at least 29 people were killed in violent protests following the conviction of a self-styled ‘godman’.
Security forces were on “standby” outside the spiritual leader’s headquarters where some 10,000 followers remained holed up, the Director General of Police in Haryana state, Baljit Singh Sandhu, told India Today news station.
A security personnel member walks past a burnt carriage of a train near a railway station in New Delhi, India, August 26, 2017. Reuters/Adnan Abidi
