Dera Sacha Sauda leader Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh turned into on Friday once more granted a forty-day parole, officers stated. The contemporary parole to the Dera leader, who’s serving a 20-yr prison time period for raping his disciples, comes 3 months after he turned into granted a comparable parole.
“The parole has been granted for forty days. It has been granted as in step with rules,” Rohtak’s Divisional Commissioner Sanjeev Verma informed PTI over the phone.
The Dera leader’s closing forty-day parole had ended on November 25 closing yr. He had long gone to his Barnawa ashram in Uttar Pradesh after his launch on October 14.
Earlier, Haryana Jails Minister Ranjit Singh Chautala, at the same time as commenting at the Dera leader’s clean parole plea, had stated the latter had filed an software looking for a forty-day parole which were forwarded to the Rohtak divisional commissioner.
During his parole duration, the Dera leader is likewise probable to wait the beginning anniversary occasion of former Dera leader Shah Satnam Singh on January 25, reassets stated.
During his preceding parole duration in October-November, the 55-yr-vintage Sirsa Dera leader held numerous online ‘satsangs’ on the Barnawa ashram in UP. Some of those had been additionally attended via way of means of BJP leaders from Haryana.
Prior to his October parole, the sect leader had pop out of jail on a month-lengthy parole in June. He turned into additionally granted 3 weeks of furlough from February 7, 2022, slightly weeks earlier than the Punjab Assembly elections.
The Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC), the apex non secular frame of the Sikhs, had in advance raised an objection after Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh turned into granted a forty-day parole closing yr.
SGPC president Harjinder Singh Dhami had alleged that at the same time as unique kindness turned into being proven to Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, Sikh prisoners lodged in jails for approximately 3 many years had been now no longer being launched even after finishing their sentences.
The Dera leader in 2021, at the side of 4 others, turned into additionally convicted for hatching a conspiracy to kill Ranjit Singh, a Dera manager. The Dera leader and 3 others had been convicted in 2019 for the homicide of a journalist over sixteen years ago.