Haryana Police have been booked Dera Sacha Sauda spokespersons Aditya Insan and Dhiman Insaan on sedition charges.

Addressing a press conference, Haryana DGP BS Sandhu said the Punjab and Haryana high court had directed the state police to verify the report carried by a Hindi daily regarding alleged instigation of dera supporters by its five leaders. “A first information report (FIR) has been registered at the Sector-5 police station in Panchkula,” he said.

The development comes after sedition and attempt to murder charges were slapped against seven persons, including five Haryana police personnel, who were part of the Dera Sacha Sauda chief’s security paraphernalia when he had arrived at Panchkula to appear in a CBI court on August 25.

The seven security personnel of the dera chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh had allegedly tried to free him when the self-styled godman was brought outside the Panchkula court complex on Friday, after the special CBI court convicted him in a 15-year-old rape case, police said.