Chandigarh, Oct. 16 -- A court acquitted nine followers of Dera Sacha Sauda in a 2011 Moga rioting and arson case in which a mob was accused of setting a Punjab Roadways Transport Corporation (PRTC) bus on fire and disrupting road and railway traffic.

The trial was transferred from Moga to Chandigarh on the directions of the Supreme Court. The case involved 11 dera followers, nine of whom were also accused in the 2015 sacrilege cases in Bargari and other parts of Faridkot district. Two of the accused, Mohinder Pal alias Bittu and Pardeep Singh, were killed during the course of the proceedings.

Dera Sacha Sauda, headquartered in Sirsa, Haryana, is headed by Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh.

The case dates back to 2011, when a clash broke out bet...