Chandigarh:
Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim was at present acquitted by the Punjab and Haryana Excessive Court docket within the homicide case of a former Dera official. Ranjit Singh, a member of the Dera’s state-level committee, was shot lifeless in 2002. It’s alleged that the homicide was linked to his suspected function in circulating an nameless letter that narrated how Ram Rahim was sexually exploiting ladies on the Dera headquarters in Haryana’s Sirsa.
In 2021, a CBI courtroom convicted Ram Rahim and 4 others within the homicide case and sentenced them to life imprisonment. The particular courtroom had held that it’s proved past affordable doubt that the Dera chief was aggrieved by the circulation of the letter and conspired with the opposite accused to kill Ranjit Singh. The 56-year-old Dera chief had challenged this conviction within the excessive courtroom. The 4 others convicted by the CBI courtroom have additionally been acquitted at present.
The controversial Dera chief is in jail after being convicted of raping two sadhvis on the dera and within the homicide case of journalist Ram Chander Prajapati, who had reported extensively on the sexual assault allegations towards the influential Dera chief.
The Dera Sacha Sauda had made headlines after surprising allegations of sexual assault surfaced towards Gurmeet Ram Rahim and the CBI began investigating the matter. In 2014, a decade after the probe started, the Dera chief claimed he was impotent, however the courtroom rejected this. His conviction in 2017 sparked violence and arson in a number of areas. Thirty individuals died, over 250 injured and the Military needed to be known as in to convey the state of affairs beneath management. Ram Rahim is now serving a 20-year-jail time period and has challenged his conviction within the excessive courtroom.
Gurmeet Ram Rahim’s attorneys at present mentioned they welcome the excessive courtroom’s judgment and added that the Dera chief has full religion within the judiciary.
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