The Punjab and Haryana High Court Today (May 28th) acquitted Dera Sacha Sauda Chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh and four others in the murder case of former Dera manager Ranjit Singh.
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Chandigarh: Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh and four others were acquitted by the Punjab and Haryana High Court in the murder case of former Dera manager Ranjit Singh. The High Court passed the order while allowing an appeal filed by Gurmeet Ram Rahim against his conviction.
A Bench of Justices Sureshwar Thakur and Lalit Batra pronounced the decision today on the appeals moved by Ram Rahim and others who had been convicted by a CBI Court in Haryana’s Panchkula in 2021.
Four other convicts – Avtar Singh, Jasbir Singh, Sabdil Singh and Krishan Lal – had been sentenced to life imprisonment along with Singh.
Ram Rahim will continue to remain in jail as he also stands convicted in a case of rape. He is also in prison for another case of conspiracy to commit murder.
In 2019, Gurmeet Ram Rahim was convicted by a CBI court in Panchkula in a rape case and two murder cases related to the killing of a journalist and former Dera manager Ranjit Singh.
On October 18, 2021, the court handed Ram Rahim and four others life imprisonment in the case. A fine of Rs 31 lakh was slapped on the Dera chief.
The Dera chief had challenged all the convictions before the Punjab and Haryana High Court. However, his appeals in the rape case and the journalist murder case are still pending. Ram Rahim is currently lodged in Rohtak’s Sunaria jail.
Ranjit Singh, the former manager of Dera Sacha Sauda, was shot dead in 2002. As per the CBI chargesheet, Ram Rahim suspected that Ranjit Singh was behind the circulation of a letter that highlighted cases of sexual abuse.
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