Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh Gets 50 Days Parole For Seventh Time In Two Years (image- facebook/Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh )
Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh who was lodged in Sunaira prison in Rohtak district has been granted 50-day parole on Friday.
According to the order signed by Rohtak divisional commissioner, Ram Rahim was granted 50-day regular parole under some conditions. The prisoner can only stay at UP Barnava ashram during this period.
He was earlier granted a 21-day parole in November 2023. This is notably the seventh time; he has been let out of the jail. This is the seventh time in the last 24 months and ninth in the last four years.
Rahim Singh is lodged in jail after being convicted in a rape and murder case. In 2021, the Dera chief, along with four others were jailed for plotting to kill Ranjith Singh, a Dera manager. He was also been convicted in 2019 of the murder of a journalist more than 16 years ago.
Ram Singh was also sentenced to a 20-year jail term in 2017 for raping two of his disciples.
Rahim, 56 has been given parole several times for different reasons including his appeal to visit his ailing mother, reports India Today.
Last year, on July 30, the Deira Chief walked out of the Sunaria jail on a 30-day parole. Prior to that, he was given a 40-day parole in January 2023. In October 2022, he was granted a 40-day parole. Prior to the October parole, he had come out of the prison on a month-long parole in June last year. Besides he was given three weeks’ furlough from February 7, 2022, PTI reported.
Last year in total he has spent nearly three months out of jail.
Meanwhile, Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee President Harjinder Singh Dhami had strongly objected to the Haryana government’s move to grant a 21-furlough to the Dera chief by saying that he is serving a sentence for heinous crime like rape and murder. By granting the parole, it is fostering an atmosphere of mistrust among the Sikh community, he added.
He also alleged that the Deira chief was repeatedly being granted temporary release from jail but governments were not listening to the voice raised by the Sikh community for the release of ‘Bandi Singhs’.
