Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, chief of Dera Sacha Sauda, has once again been granted parole. This time, the Sirsa-based dera chief has received a 30-day parole, marking his 16th furlough or parole since his conviction in August 2017.
Visuals of him leaving Rohtak's Sunaria Jail under tight security have also surfaced. According to officials, Ram Rahim left the jail premises at around 6:30 am accompanied by a police convoy and proceeded towards the dera headquarters in Sirsa.
Earlier in January 2026, he had also been released on parole and remained out of jail for 40 days.
Ram Rahim is currently serving a prison sentence in connection with the rape of two women disciples. In 2017, he was sentenced to 20 years in jail after being convicted in the case involving the sexual assault of two of his female followers.
How many times did Ram Rahim receive parole?
Over the past six years, Ram Rahim has been released from jail on several occasions after being granted parole or furlough multiple times.
2020
- October 2020: 1-day parole
2021
- May 2021: 1-day parole
2022
- February 2022: 21-day furlough
- June 2022: 30-day parole
- October 2022: 40-day parole
2023
- January 2023: 40-day parole
- July 2023: 30-day parole
- November 2023: 21-day furlough
2024
- January 2024: 50-day parole
- August 2024: 21-day furlough
- October 2024: 20-day parole
2025
- January 2025: 30-day parole
- April 2025: 21-day furlough
- August 2025: 40-day parole
2026
- January 2026: 40-day parole
- May 25, 2026: 30-day parole granted
- He walked out of jail this morning, May 26.
Gurmeet Ram Rahim acquitted in journalist murder case
In March, the Punjab and Haryana High Court acquitted Ram Rahim in the 2002 murder case of journalist Ram Chander Chhatrapati. The decision comes more than seven years after a special CBI court had convicted the Sirsa-based Dera Sacha Sauda and sentenced him to life imprisonment.
According to Ram Rahim’s lawyer, Jitender Khurana, the High Court overturned the earlier conviction and cleared him of the charges related to the journalist’s killing.
Journalist Ram Chander Chhatrapati, who published the newspaper Poora Sach, was killed in October 2002 after being shot outside his residence in Sirsa, Haryana. The attack happened shortly after his newspaper printed an anonymous letter that accused women followers at the Dera Sacha Sauda headquarters of being sexually exploited. Chhatrapati's family had approached the Punjab and Haryana High Court in 2003, seeking the transfer of the case to the Central Bureau of Investigation. The investigation was later handed over to the CBI, which filed the chargesheet in July 2007. In August 2017, the sect leader was brought to the Panchkula court, where the CBI court judge pronounced the verdict in the rape case.
(Report: Sunil Kumar from Rohtak)
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