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Rape Convict Ram Rahim Out On Parole Ahead Of Delhi Polls

On Tuesday, Dera Sacha Sauda chief and rape convict Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh walked out of the Sunaria jail in Rohtak. This comes after he was granted a 30-day parole. Now this marks a rape convict’s 12th temporary release from jail since 2020.

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The recent release comes just days before the Delhi assembly elections. The 2025 Delhi Legislative Assembly election for all 70 constituencies is scheduled for 5 February 2025.

The Results will be declared on 8 February. Earlier, the Dera Sacha Chief was given a 20-day parole three days before Haryana went to the polls in October last year.

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According to reports, the self-styled godman was secretly released from jail at 5:30 a.m. on Tuesday. His close aide, Honeypreet, was also present to receive him. From the jail, the Dera chief drove straight to his Sirsa-based headquarters.

After reaching the Dera in Sirsa, Singh sent a video message. Ram Rahim told his followers that he would be going to the Sirsa Ashram, but they must not come to see him there. Whatever orders and messages are given to them, they should comply with them completely, Ram Rahim told his followers.

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The Dera Chief arrived there at the ashram around 7:30 am. Ram Rahim is staying at his Sirsa Dera for the first time since his conviction in 2017. The Sirsa-headquartered Dera Sacha Sauda has a number of followers in Haryana, Punjab, Rajasthan and other states. In Haryana, Dera Sacha Sauda has followers in many districts, including Sirsa, Fatehabad, Kurukshetra, Kaithal and Hisar.

A senior jail official said, “Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh has been released on a 30-day parole. During these 30 days he will stay at the Dera Ashram in Sirsa in Haryana for the first 10 days. For the remaining 20 days, he will stay at Barnawa ashram in Uttar Pradesh’s Baghpat district”.

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A government official revealed that a report was sought from the Sirsa district administration before allowing the Dera chief to stay at his Dera headquarters.

The official further said, “After the district administration informed that there was no objection from their side, permission was granted to him”. During his previous parole the Dera chief was only allowed to visit his sect at Baghpat in Uttar Pradesh.

  • In October 2024, Ram Rahim was given a 20-day parole just three days before the Haryana assembly polls.
  • The Dera Chief was released for 50 days in January last year and again for 21 days on August 13, 2024. Back then, he was barred from participating in election-related activities, making speeches and staying in the state during the period.
  • In November 2023, he got a 29-day parole that again comes ahead of the Rajasthan assembly elections
  • Furthermore, he was out on 30-day parole in July 2023 before the panchayat elections in Haryana.
  • In October 2022, he got a 40-day parole before the Adampur assembly by-elections in Haryana.
  • Besides, he got a 30-day parole in June 2022 before the Haryana municipal corporation elections.
  • He was granted three weeks’ furlough from February 7, 2022, barely two weeks before the Punjab assembly polls.
  • On October 24, 2020, Gurmeet Ram Rahim was released from jail from sunrise to sunset to meet his ailing mother at a Gurugram hospital. The release again coincided with the Baroda byelections in Sonepat.

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In October 2021, a special CBI court in Panchkula held Singh and four others guilty of the murder of Ranjit Singh, a former Dera manager. The Court sentenced them to life imprisonment in the nearly 20-year-old murder case.

Ranjit Singh was shot dead in the Khanpur Colony of Haryana’s Kurukshetra on July 10, 2002. Mr Singh’s murder was linked to his suspected role in the circulation of a letter exposing sexual exploitation allegations. The letter described how women followers were being abused.

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Ram Rahim Singh had been held guilty of hatching a criminal conspiracy with his co-accused. The court also imposed fines on all five. Rs 31 lakh on Ram Rahim, Rs 1.50 lakh on Sabdil Singh, Rs 1.25 lakh each on Jasbir Singh and Krishan Lal, and Rs 75,000 on Avtar Singh.

However, on 28 May 2024, the Punjab and Haryana High Court acquitted Gurmeet Ram Rahim and four others in the 2002 Ranjit Singh murder case. The court cited “tainted and sketchy” investigations in the matter.

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Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh was sentenced in 2017 in the case of raping two of his disciples. He is serving a 20-year sentence and is lodged in the Sunaria jail in Haryana’s Rohtak district.

In 2019, the Dera chief and three others were also convicted for the murder of a journalist, Ram Chander Chhatrapati, more than 16 years ago.

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