Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh: Punjab and Haryana High Court on Tuesday gave a big relief to Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim. The High Court has acquitted Gurmeet Ram Rahim in the Ranjit Singh murder case. The High Court rejected the CBI court's life imprisonment order. The High Court acquitted five more people including the Dera chief in this case. In the Ranjit Singh murder case, the CBI Court Panchkula had sentenced Gurmeet Ram Rahim to life imprisonment in 2021 and imposed a fine of Rs 31 lakh. Ranjit Singh was murdered in 2002.
Big relief to Gurmeet Ram Rahim from HCOn October 18, 2021, the Special CBI Court of Panchkula had convicted Gurmeet Ram Rahim. The court had sentenced Ram Rahim to life imprisonment. Now Punjab and Haryana High Court has acquitted 5 culprits including Dera chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim.
The matter is 22 years oldLet us tell you that the entire matter is of July 10, 2002. Ranjit Singh, who was a member of the management committee of the camp at that time, was shot dead. A lot of investigation went on in this matter. However, not being satisfied with the police investigation, Ranjit Singh's son Jagseer Singh had filed a petition in the High Court demanding a CBI investigation. This petition was filed in 2003. After the petition was filed, the case was handed over to the CBI and then in October 2021, the CBI convicted five accused including Ram Rahim.
Ram Rahim will not be able to come out of jailHowever, even after being acquitted in this 22 year old murder case, Ram Rahim will not be able to come out of jail. This is because Ram Rahim has been sentenced to jail in many other cases. Ram Rahim has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for sexually exploiting two nuns. Apart from this, Ram Rahim has also been sentenced to life imprisonment in the Chhatrapati murder case. In such a situation, Ram Rahim will still have to remain in jail due to serving the sentence in both these cases.
Many cases against GurmeetLet us tell you that many cases are pending against Gurmeet Ram Rahim. In 2017, the Special CBI Court of Panchkula had convicted Gurmeet Ram Rahim of raping two female disciples and sentenced him to 20 years of imprisonment. In 2019, the same CBI court had also sentenced him to life imprisonment in the case of murder of Sirsa journalist Ram Chander Chhatrapati.Due to all these allegations, Gurmeet has been in jail for the last few years. During this period he got parole several times. He remained out of jail several times on parole. In the last four years, Gurmeet remained out of jail for more than seven months.
When did Gurmeet get parole?- October 2020: one day
- May 2021: One day parole
- February 2022: 21 days parole.
- June 2022: 30 days parole
- October 2022: 40 days parole
- January 2023: 40 days parole
- July 2023: 30 days parole
- November 2023: 21 days furlough
- January 2024: 50 days parole