Haryana: The Dera Sacha Sauda chief, who is serving a 20-year jail term for raping two of his disciples, walked out of the Sunaria prison in Haryana's Rohtak on Saturday.
Haryana CM Khattar refused to interfere saying taking parole is one's right. Ram Rahim's last 40-day parole ended on November 25 last year.
During his parole period, the Dera chief is also likely to attend the birth anniversary event of former Dera chief Shah Satnam Singh on January 25,
Gurmeet Ram Rahim, head of Barnawa Dera Sacha Sauda Ashram, is serving a sentence for rape and murder in Rohtak's Sunaria Jail. He has been granted parole for 40 days
Ram Rahim parole: The decision to grant him parole ahead of the Adampur bypoll in Haryana on November 3 and panchayat elections has triggered a furore.
Honeypreet new name: Gurmeet Ram Rahim also indicated that Honeypreet will continue to be in whatever role in the Dera setup she is at present.
Ram Rahim has been doing online satsang for his followers from Barnawa Ashram in UP since his release on parole. Leaders and MLAs, including his followers, are said to be participating in this satsang.
Gurmeet Ram Rahim news: The self-styled godman has been allowed furlough on several occasions in the last five years as per the jail manual.
"He has been granted a month-long parole and he came out of the prison on Friday," a senior police official from Rohtak told media.
Gurmeet Ram Rahim who is currently lodged in Sunaria Jail of Rohtak will now appear only through video conferencing in matters related to the 2015 sacrilege incidents.
A Rohtak police official said the dera chief was brought from Gurugram to Sunaria jail in Rohtak district before noon under heavy security cover.
Special CBI judge Sushil Kumar Garghad had convicted Ram Rahim Singh and four others - Krishan Lal, Jasbir Singh, Avtar Singh and Sabdil - in the murder case on October 8.
A special CBI court in Haryana's Panchkula on Monday awarded life imprisonment to Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim and four others in the 2002 Ranjit Singh murder case.
Ranjit Singh, a former follower of Ram Rahim, was shot dead by four assailants on July 10, 2002, in Kurukshetra after he allegedly "raised his voice" against the self-styled godman
Ram Rahim (53) is currently lodged at the high-security Sunaria jail in Rohtak, 250 km from Chandigarh. Last month, he was hospitalised at the PGMIS after he complained of low blood pressure. But he had refused a Covid-19 test in the hospital.
Gurmeet Ram Rahim has been lodged in Rohtak's Sunaria jail since 2017 following his conviction for raping two of his women disciples.
Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh was in August 2017 sentenced by a special CBI court in Panchkula to 20 years in jail in the rape case.
The Manohar Lal Khattar government in Haryana on October 24, granted a day's parole to controversial Dera Sacha Sauda head Gurmeet Ram Rahim, who is serving a 20-year jail sentence for raping two of his disciples and has been denied bail several times by the courts.
The parole was sought on the grounds that the convict had earned "good conduct remission reports".
Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim was convicted of rape in 2017.
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