Self-styled godman Ram Rahim Singh acquitted in scribe’s murder case
Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh is serving a 20-year jail sentence for raping two of his disciples and a life term for the murder of journalist Chhatrapati.
Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh is serving a 20-year jail sentence for raping two of his disciples and a life term for the murder of journalist Chhatrapati.
Controversial Dera Sacha Sauda sect chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, who is serving a 20-year jail sentence for raping two of his disciples, was granted furlough on Wednesday for 21 days by the Haryana government.
This is the second parole for the Dera chief this year. He was earlier granted parole in January for 40 days. As Ram Rahim has not been allowed by the court to visit his ashram in Sirsa
Gurmeet Ram Rahim walked out of the Sunaria Jail in Rohtak (Haryana) on Saturday after he was granted 40 days parole on Friday.
Notably, the Dera chief was also granted parole ahead of the Haryana panchayat election and Adampur Assembly bypoll. Rahim was granted parole for a month on June 17.
Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh ordered an inquiry into the attack on the prime suspect in the Bargari sacrilege case at the New Nabha prison, warning of stringent punishment for the assailants
Ram Rahim and the three others were convicted by the CBI court on January 11. All the four were convicted under Section 302 (murder) and 120-B (criminal conspiracy) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).
The Central Bureau of Investigation court in Panchkula will hand down the quantum of punishment to the self-proclaimed godman and his three close aides.
A special CBI court in Haryana's Panchkula held Singh guilty of murdering the Sirsa-based journalist in 2002.
The Punjab Police SIT had summoned Akshay Kumar as a witness in connection with his alleged role in brokering a Rs 100-crore deal between now-jailed Gurmeet Ram Rahim and former Punjab deputy CM Sukhbir Badal in Mumbai in 2015, days before the release of a film of the Dera Sacha Sauda chief
