Tag: Dera Chief

Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Singh held guilty in journalist murder case

A special CBI court in Haryana's Panchkula held Singh guilty of murdering the Sirsa-based journalist in 2002.

January 11, 2019

Honeypreet Insan’s judicial custody extended till Nov 6

A Panchkula court today extended the judicial custody of Honeypreet Insan till November 6 in a case related to the violence that followed the Dera Sacha Sauda sect chief’s rape conviction on August 25, which left 41 people dead and scores injured. Honeypreet Insan, who calls herself the adopted daughter of Dera chief Gurmeet Ram...

October 23, 2017

Pleas of Dera chief, rape victims admitted by High court

The Punjab and Haryana High Court issued a notice to the CBI while admitting separate pleas filed by the Dera Sacha Sauda chief challenging his 20 -year sentence in rape case and that of the two victims seeking life imprisonment for Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh. As the case came up for hearing today, a division...

October 9, 2017

Honeypreet tells TV channel ‘devastated’, ‘depressed’ by violence accusations

  Jailed Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh’s adopted daughter Honeypreet Insan, who has been on the run for over a month, says she is “devastated” by allegations that she incited the Panchkula violence. She told a TV news channel that her “Papa” was innocent and that his conviction on August 25 in...

October 3, 2017

Final arguments of defence heard in murder case against Dera chief

A special CBI court here today began hearing the final arguments of the defence counsel in the murder case of former Dera Sacha Sauda manager Ranjit Singh allegedly involving sect chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh. The defence counsel today read out the statement of two of the 23 witnesses as the closing arguments in this...

September 21, 2017

Gurmeet Singh a common prisoner; will do farming: DGP

Used to a life of ultra luxury, disgraced Dera Sacha Sauda sect chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh will now earn a daily wage of Rs.20 for cultivating a small farmholding near his prison barrack and growing vegetables. The rapist sect chief, who used to spend millions of rupees on his public appearances and crores to...

September 20, 2017

Dera chief’s hearing in murder cases: Security tightened in Panchkula

Security has been tightened in Panchkula town in Haryana ahead of a crucial hearing in two separate murder cases against Dera Sacha Sauda sect chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh and others here on Saturday. The cases, related to the murder of Sirsa-based journalist Ram Chander Chhatrapati and former Dera manager Ranjit Singh, allegedly by functionaries...

September 15, 2017

There was a conspiracy to let Ram Rahim escape: Khattar

Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar has revealed that there was “a big conspiracy” to let Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim escape from Panchkula court soon after his conviction for rape but the security forces foiled the plan. “There is an element of truth (in conspiracy angle). There was a big conspiracy to...

September 9, 2017

‘Wild beast, deserves no mercy’, says judgment on rapist Dera chief

Rapist Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh may have tried his teary antics in the court on Monday, pleading for mercy, but the court was in no such mood as it sent him behind bars for 20 years, terming his conduct as that of a “wild beast”. CBI special court judge Jagdeep Singh...

August 28, 2017

High Court slams Khattar for ‘political patronage’ to Dera chief

Slamming Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar for “protecting and extending political patronage” to controversial godman Gurmeet Ram Rahim, the Punjab and Haryana High Court on Saturday asked the state to register a case against those who instigated the widespread violence by Dera followers after the sect leader was convicted of rape. Directing the state...

August 26, 2017

Dera chief not to be brought to Panchkula for sentencing: DGP

After Dera followers indulged in large-scale violence on Friday following their leader Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh’s conviction in a rape case, the Haryana Police on Saturday said the jailed godman will not be brought to Panchkula for the sentencing on Monday. CBI court judge Jagdeep Singh while convicting the Dera chief in the 2002 rape...

August 26, 2017

Dera chief gets VIP treatment in jail

Convicted of rape and criminal intimidation on two counts, Dera chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh continued to get VIP treatment from Haryana’s Manohar Lal Khattar government in prison. The Dera Sacha Sauda chief, according to police sources, was provided with an air-conditioned room in the prison near Rohtak town, around 70 km from Delhi. “From...

August 26, 2017

Ensure security of judge who convicted Dera chief: Centre to Haryana

The Centre on Friday asked the Haryana government to provide adequate security to the CBI special court judge who convicted Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh in a rape case, officials said. The home ministry told the Haryana government that Judge Jagdeep Singh should be provided highest level of security in view of...

August 26, 2017