Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) chairperson Swati Maliwal slammed the Haryana government on granting parole to Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh who is serving a jail term after being convicted of rape and murder cases.
New Delhi: Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) chairperson Swati Maliwal slammed the Haryana government on granting parole to Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh who is serving a jail term after being convicted of rape and murder cases.
โRam Rahim is a rapist and murderer. He is given life imprisonment by Court but Haryana government gives him parole whenever they want. He is organising โSatsangโ and the deputy speaker and Mayor of the Haryana governmnet are attending these events,โ the DCW chief said. However, Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar earlier on Wednesday said he has โno roleโ in the parole granted to the Dera chief.
She further claimed that the leaders who attended his Satsang were Ram Rahimโs decent devotees.
Maliwal further appealed to the Haryana government to cancel Ram Rahimโs parole and sentence him to jail.
Ram Rahim Singh on October 19 organized a virtual โSatsangโ which was attended by many political leaders including the Karnal Mayor and many Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders, sparking a fresh controversy.
Dera Sacha chief Ram Rahim was recently released from the Sunaria jail on 40-day parole.
The decision to grant Ram Rahim parole ahead of the Adampur bypoll in Haryana on November 3 and the panchayat elections has triggered a furore.
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Rahim was granted parole for a month on June 17. He has been incarcerated, since 2017, in Haryanaโs Sunaria jail where he is serving a 20-year-term for raping two women disciples at his ashramโs headquarters in Sirsa. Earlier in February, the Dera chief was granted three weeksโ leave.
While parole means the release of a prisoner either temporarily for a special purpose or completely before the expiry of a sentence, on the promise of good behaviour, a furlough is a short-term temporary release of convicts from jail. He was convicted by a special CBI court in Panchkula in August 2017 for raping two women followers.
While, on October 8, 2021, the court convicted Rahim and four others in connection with former Dera manager Ranjit Singhโs murder case.
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