Rohtak : Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, who’s serving a 20-year sentence within the Sadhvi sexual assault case, has as soon as once more been launched from Rohtaks Sunaria Jail after being granted 30-day parole by the competent state authority, marking his sixteenth non permanent launch since his conviction.
The self-styled godman walked out of Sunaria Jail at round 6:34 am, with minimal seen safety preparations throughout his exit. Confirming the event, his advocate Jitendra Khurana stated, “He has acquired the parole as we speak. It has been given by the competent authority of the state. He has been granted parole for 30 days.”
He additional added, “He’ll keep in his Dera Sacha Sauda, Sirsa, in the course of the parole.” Ram Rahim was first lodged in Sunaria Jail in August 2017 following his conviction and has since been launched a number of instances on parole or furlough, together with a 40-day parole earlier this 12 months in January, after which he returned to jail on February 15.
Earlier on March 7, the Punjab and Haryana Excessive Courtroom acquitted Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh within the journalist Ramchandra Chhatrapatis homicide case, the self-styled godmans lawyer confirmed. Gurmeet Ram Rahim was accused of orchestrating the killing of Ramchandra Chhatrapati, a Sirsa-based journalist, for overtly criticising the Dera chief in his newspaper. In 2019, a Particular CBI court docket discovered him responsible and pronounced life imprisonment within the case. Together with Ram Rahim, three different convicts – Kuldeep Singh, Nirmal Singh and Krishan Lal – had been additionally discovered responsible within the homicide case and had been awarded life imprisonment. The court docket had additionally imposed a superb of Rs 50,000 every.
A division bench of Chief Justice Sheel Nagu and Justice Vikram Aggarwal of the Punjab and Haryana Excessive Courtroom delivered the decision, acquitting Ram Rahim. Earlier, in 2024, the Punjab and Haryana Excessive Courtroom acquitted Dera Sacha Sauda chief and 4 others within the 2002 homicide case of a former Dera official. The Particular CBI court docket of Panchkula had sentenced all of the accused, together with Gurmeet Ram Rahim and 4 others, to life imprisonment within the homicide case of Dera supervisor Ranjit Singh.
It was alleged that Ranjit Singh, a resident of village Khanpur Kolian, Kurukshetra, was murdered on July 10, 2002, when he was working in his fields at village Khanpur Kolian of District Kurukshetra in Haryana. This isn’t the primary occasion of parole granted to the self-styled godman, whose non permanent releases up to now have drawn political criticism and safety issues.
