A self-styled Indian "godman" has been sentenced to 10-years in jail after he was found guilty of sexually assaulting two female followers.
Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh's followers went on a deadly rampage after he was convicted of rape last week, with at least 38 killed and more than 200 injured in protests in Haryana state.
The Dera Sacha Sauda cult has a vast rural following in the states of Punjab and Haryana.
As a result, a curfew has been imposed in several areas of the states, and the capital Delhi has been placed on alert.
The army is on standby and police have been given "shoot on sight" orders, the BBC reports.
The flamboyant and controversial spiritual guru's sentence was pronounced amid intense security at a prison in the northern town of Rohtak, where the guru, who calls himself Dr Saint Gurmeet Singh Ram Rahim Insan, has been in a prison since his conviction.
