Hindu cult in India ran own pseudo-government, torture prisons, police say

[Little Tich]

Source: ABC News Australia

Police in India say a mysterious cult at the centre of deadly clashes was running its own pseudo-government, army, court and a prison where torture was the norm.

Around 3,000 followers of the sect clashed with police in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh during an eviction operation, leaving 24 people dead, including two senior officers.

The secretive sect had occupied a 109-hectare stretch of parkland since late 2014, with the site almost entirely closed off to the outside world, the top police inspector general of the region said.

"They set up a township of sorts with all kinds of people. Gradually, they started running a self-government," DC Mishra said, after officers seized documents and other evidence from the camp.

Read more: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-06-05/indian-'revolutionary-cult'-clashes-with-police/7478764

[AuntPatsy]

1. Just horrific, so many like minds world wide I have no doubt dreams similar

[Major Nikon]

2. Looks like Scientology has some competition

[Recursion]

3. The cult leader was killed in a firefight

http://www.ndtv.com/cities/key-accused-in-mathura-violence-ram-vriksh-yadav-dead-says-police-1415543

For even more "fun", farther southeast in the state there's essentially an open war in some places between far-right Hindu cults and the Maoist Naxalite insurgency (with both of them wanting to kill government troops whenever they see them too).

If you think this election is bad, imagine having to choose between theocracy and Maoism.

[Beakybird]

4. One will kill for their beliefs

And the other will kill for their non-beliefs

May they make each other disappear like matter and anti-matter.

[MariaThinks]

5. i can't say im sorry