Rape convict Ram Rahim gets another parole, 14th such relief in 8 years
He was last granted a 21-day furlough on April 9, and prior to that, received a 30-day parole in January this year, just ahead of the February 5 Delhi Assembly polls. Earlier, on October 1 last year, he was also granted a 20-day parole before the October 5 Haryana Assembly elections.Dera Sacha Sauda, led by Singh, commands a large following across Haryana, Punjab, Rajasthan, and several other states. In Haryana, the sect has a particularly strong presence in districts such as Sirsa, Fatehabad, Kurukshetra, Kaithal, and Hisar.Ram Rahim is currently serving a 20-year sentence for the rape of two female disciples, a conviction handed down by a special CBI court in August 2017. In January 2019, he was also convicted, along with three others, of the murder of journalist Ram Chander Chhatrapati, and sentenced to life imprisonment.While he was acquitted in May 2024 by the Punjab and Haryana High Court in the 2002 murder of the sect's former manager Ranjit Singh, Singh's convictions in the rape and journalist murder cases remain.- EndsMust Watch
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