CHANDIGARH: Sirsa-based Dera Sacha Sauda head Gurmeet Ram Rahim, a convict in rape and homicide circumstances, walked out of Rohtak’s Sunaria jail on Tuesday on a 21-day furlough, his second break in 2024 from his 20-year jail sentence after he was launched for 50 days in Jan, earlier than the Lok Sabha elections.
Counting the newest order, Ram Rahim has been granted furlough for a complete of 253 days by means of eight orders since Feb 7, 2022, the 12 months he turned eligible for the ability.In different phrases, since Feb 7, 2022, the dera chief would have spent roughly 26% of days exterior the jail.
The BJP-governed Haryana and Uttar Pradesh govts gave clearances inside 24 hours of his software for launch, which comes forward of meeting elections in Haryana slated for Oct, in keeping with a scrutiny of information.
On Aug 9, the Punjab and Haryana excessive courtroom had vacated the keep on granting parole to the dera chief, holding that the state was competent to take a call on such points.
Sources mentioned that only a day after the courtroom order, Ram Rahim utilized underneath Part 4 of the Haryana Good Conduct Prisoners (Momentary Launch) Act, 2022, for a 21-day furlough at Shah Satnam Ashram, Dera Sacha Sauda, in Baghpat, UP.
The Haryana jail division instantly cleared his case. The Baghpat district Justice of the Peace, in a report issued vide letter No. 1514/JA-furlough/2024, dated Aug 11, and the Baghpat SP in a report vide letter No. DCRB-furlough 2024, additionally dated Aug 11, mentioned inside just a few hours of being intimated that they’d no objection to his launch
Clearances from the UP govt had been wanted because the dera chief could be staying in his UP-based ashram.
“The authority is happy that the applicant is entitled to be launched underneath the act in view of the report of the superintendent, district jail, Rohtak. Additionally, the Baghpat district Justice of the Peace and superintendent of police don’t have any objection to releasing the convict on furlough,” the Rohtak divisional commissioner noticed in his Aug 12 order releasing the dera chief.
The divisional commissioner, nonetheless, has ordered the officer answerable for the police station involved to maintain an in depth watch on the conduct and actions of the dera chief throughout his momentary launch.
The dera head is serving 20-year jail time period for raping two of his disciples, and two life phrases for murdering a journalist and for the homicide of a former dera supervisor.
Counting the newest order, Ram Rahim has been granted furlough for a complete of 253 days by means of eight orders since Feb 7, 2022, the 12 months he turned eligible for the ability.In different phrases, since Feb 7, 2022, the dera chief would have spent roughly 26% of days exterior the jail.
The BJP-governed Haryana and Uttar Pradesh govts gave clearances inside 24 hours of his software for launch, which comes forward of meeting elections in Haryana slated for Oct, in keeping with a scrutiny of information.
On Aug 9, the Punjab and Haryana excessive courtroom had vacated the keep on granting parole to the dera chief, holding that the state was competent to take a call on such points.
Sources mentioned that only a day after the courtroom order, Ram Rahim utilized underneath Part 4 of the Haryana Good Conduct Prisoners (Momentary Launch) Act, 2022, for a 21-day furlough at Shah Satnam Ashram, Dera Sacha Sauda, in Baghpat, UP.
The Haryana jail division instantly cleared his case. The Baghpat district Justice of the Peace, in a report issued vide letter No. 1514/JA-furlough/2024, dated Aug 11, and the Baghpat SP in a report vide letter No. DCRB-furlough 2024, additionally dated Aug 11, mentioned inside just a few hours of being intimated that they’d no objection to his launch
Clearances from the UP govt had been wanted because the dera chief could be staying in his UP-based ashram.
“The authority is happy that the applicant is entitled to be launched underneath the act in view of the report of the superintendent, district jail, Rohtak. Additionally, the Baghpat district Justice of the Peace and superintendent of police don’t have any objection to releasing the convict on furlough,” the Rohtak divisional commissioner noticed in his Aug 12 order releasing the dera chief.
The divisional commissioner, nonetheless, has ordered the officer answerable for the police station involved to maintain an in depth watch on the conduct and actions of the dera chief throughout his momentary launch.
The dera head is serving 20-year jail time period for raping two of his disciples, and two life phrases for murdering a journalist and for the homicide of a former dera supervisor.
