Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh gets 30-day parole
This is the second parole for the Dera chief this year. He was earlier granted parole in January for 40 days. As Ram Rahim has not been allowed by the court to visit his ashram in Sirsa
This is the second parole for the Dera chief this year. He was earlier granted parole in January for 40 days. As Ram Rahim has not been allowed by the court to visit his ashram in Sirsa
Gurmeet Ram Rahim walked out of the Sunaria Jail in Rohtak (Haryana) on Saturday after he was granted 40 days parole on Friday.
Notably, the Dera chief was also granted parole ahead of the Haryana panchayat election and Adampur Assembly bypoll. Rahim was granted parole for a month on June 17.
Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann says that no one will be allowed to disturb peace in the state.
Gurmeet Ram Rahim is currently out of Jail on 40-day parole, during which he hosted a virtual Satsang last week.
The Central Bureau of Investigation court in Panchkula will hand down the quantum of punishment to the self-proclaimed godman and his three close aides.
A special CBI court in Haryana's Panchkula held Singh guilty of murdering the Sirsa-based journalist in 2002.
The Punjab Police SIT had summoned Akshay Kumar as a witness in connection with his alleged role in brokering a Rs 100-crore deal between now-jailed Gurmeet Ram Rahim and former Punjab deputy CM Sukhbir Badal in Mumbai in 2015, days before the release of a film of the Dera Sacha Sauda chief
While Parkash Singh Badal has been asked to appear before the SIT on November 16, Sukhbir has been summoned on November 19 and Akshay Kumar has been asked to come on November 21 to the Circuit House in Amritsar.
Jakhar said that Sukhbir cannot escape from the responsibility of events (incidents of sacrilege and firing on anti-sacrilege protesters) which happened during his regime.