Lagatar24 Desk
New Delhi, Oct 27: The Haryana government was criticised by the chairman of the Delhi Commission for Women (DCW), Swati Maliwal, for granting parole to the leader of Dera Sacha Sauda, Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, who is currently serving a prison sentence after being found guilty of rape and murder.
“Take back Ram Rahim’s parole…” said DCW chairperson Swati Maliwal.
Manohar Lal Khattar, the chief minister of Haryana, responded to Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh receiving parole.
“I do not want to say anything. I have no role in this. Courts announce imprisonment and a convict goes to jail. After that, the jail’s rules apply to all the inmates,” Haryana CM said.
On October 14, Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh was granted a 40-day parole and freed from the Sunaria prison in Haryana. In relation to the rape of two of his female disciples in his ashram in Sirsa, where Dera is based, Ram Rahim is currently serving a 20-year prison sentence.
In August 2017 in Panchkula, a special CBI court found the self-styled godman guilty. Ram Rahim and four other people were found guilty in 2021 of planning to murder Ranjit Singh, a manager for the Dera, in 2002. Additionally, he was found guilty of killing a journalist more than 16 years ago in 2019.
Ram Rahim, who was on parole, posted a song video called “Sadi Nit Diwali” on his Saint MSG YouTube page for Diwali. Mahua Moitra, the leader of the TMC, criticised the video and demanded “codified parole legislation.”
