Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, serving a 20-year jail time period for raping two of his disciples, walked out of Sunaria jail in Haryana’s Rohtak on Tuesday after being granted a 40-day parole.
Singh will keep at his Sirsa-headquartered Dera throughout his parole, stated Dera spokesperson and advocate Jitender Khurana.
Singh, who will flip 58 on August 15, was convicted in 2017 for raping two of his disciples. The Dera chief and three others had been additionally convicted in 2019 for the homicide of a journalist greater than 16 years in the past.
By the point Singh will return to jail on the finish of his parole, he would have been out of jail for 3 months this yr.
Gurmeet Ram Rahim’s earlier paroles
He was granted a 21-day furlough in April and a 30-day parole in January, forward of the February 5 Delhi meeting polls.
He was granted a 20-day parole on October 1 final yr, days earlier than the October 5 Haryana meeting polls.
In August final yr, Singh was granted a 21-day furlough. He was granted a three-week furlough from February 7, 2022, barely two weeks earlier than the Punjab meeting polls.
Sikh organisations, just like the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee, have up to now criticised the grant of reduction to Singh.
On many of the 13 events up to now when Singh was out of jail, he remained on the Dera’s ashram in Barnawa in Uttar Pradesh’s Baghpat.
In Could final yr, the Punjab and Haryana Excessive Court docket right here acquitted Singh and 4 others within the 2002 homicide of the sect’s former supervisor Ranjit Singh, citing “tainted and sketchy” investigations into the matter.
Earlier, a particular CBI court docket sentenced them to life imprisonment within the almost 20-year-old homicide case. It held Singh responsible of hatching a prison conspiracy along with his co-accused.
The Sirsa-headquartered Dera Sacha Sauda has plenty of followers in Haryana, Punjab, Rajasthan and different states. In Haryana, the Dera has a large variety of followers in lots of districts, together with Sirsa, Fatehabad, Kurukshetra, Kaithal and Hisar.
