Dera chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim granted month-long parole, leaves Rohtak jail

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Dera chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim granted month-long parole, leaves Rohtak jail

Saturday, 18 June 2022 | PNS | Chandigarh


The Jailed Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh on Friday walked out of a prison in Rohtak on a month-long parole.  Haryana Jails Minister Ranjit Chautala said that the 30-day parole was granted by the Rohtak Divisional Commissioner on the recommendation from officials concerned.  The minister said that Gurmeet Ram Rahim had said in his plea that he wanted to go to the Dera Sacha Sauda Ashram, Barnawa in Baghpat of Uttar Pradesh. A go-ahead from the administration in Baghpat was taken before clearance was given for the parole, the minister said.

"He has been granted a month-long parole and he came out of the prison on Friday," a senior police official from Rohtak said. The sect chief is serving a 20-year term for raping two women disciples at his ashram in Sirsa, where the Dera is headquartered. He was convicted by a special CBI court in Panchkula in August 2017. Earlier in February, he was given 21-day furlough which was just days ahead of the assembly polls in Punjab.

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