Sirsa : Dera Sacha Sauda chief and rape convict Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh arrived on the Dera headquarters in Sirsa from Sunaria Jail in Rohtak after being granted 21-day parole. Ram Rahim is serving a 20-year sentence within the rape case and has been granted parole a number of instances up to now.
In the meantime, in a separate case, on August 10, the Supreme Court docket admitted the attraction difficult the acquittal of the Sirsa-based Dera Sacha Sauda sect chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh by the Punjab and Haryana Excessive Court docket within the 2002 homicide of journalist Ram Chander Chhatrapati, overturning his earlier conviction by a particular CBI court docket.
A bench of Chief Justice of India Surya Kant and Justices Joymalya Bagchi and V Mohana agreed to listen to the attraction filed by the slain journalists son in opposition to the acquittal. The bench has posted the attraction for ultimate listening to within the week commencing November 16.
Throughout the listening to, when the bench was instructed that the State authorities has not filed an attraction in opposition to the Excessive Court docket verdict, the bench mentioned, “We’re additionally acutely aware of the truth that the State may not are available attraction.” The Excessive Court docket allowed Ram Rahims attraction in opposition to the trial courts conviction, ruling that the prosecution did not show his guilt past an inexpensive doubt and noting gaps/coercion within the CBI witness testimony.
Ram Rahim was accused of orchestrating the killing of Ram Chandra Chhatrapati, a Sirsa-based journalist, for overtly criticising the Dera chief in his newspaper. The journalist was shot outdoors his house in Haryanas Sirsa in October 2002. Chhatrapati, who ran the native newspaper Poora Sach, had revealed an nameless letter alleging sexual exploitation of feminine followers on the Deras headquarters in Sirsa.
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 – have been additionally discovered responsible within the homicide case and have been awarded life imprisonment.
