Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim found guilty of rape, taken into judicial custody
The court's verdict in the case against the 50-year-old Dera chief came after 14 years
In 2002, a Dera sadhvi wrote an anonymous letter to then PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee saying she was raped by the Dera chief
The verdict was delivered amid unprecedented security as thousands of Dera followers gathered in Panchkula.
Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh was Friday found guilty of raping two ‘sadhvis’ (female followers) by the CBI court in Panchkula, Haryana. The quantum of the sentence will be announced on Monday, August 28. The Dera chief faces up to seven years in jail.
The CBI had filed an FIR against Ram Rahim in 2002 and the case came to trial in 2008. Both Punjab and Haryana are in heavy lockdown as thousands of followers of Ram Rahim Singh are on the roads. Trains and bus services have been cancelled. Schools and colleges are closed. Paramilitary forces are patrolling the area around the CBI court in Panchkula.
In the letter, the sadhvi also accused Gurmeet Ram Rahim of raping several other female followers inside the sprawling Dera campus on the outskirts of Sirsa in the state of Haryana.
*The Punjab and Haryana high court took suo motu - of its own accord - cognizance of the sadhvi's letter and directed the CBI to register a sexual exploitation case against the Dera chief in 2002. The CBI then registered a case against Gurmeet Ram Rahim, based on the sadhvi's letter.
The court's verdict in the case against the 50-year-old Dera chief came after 14 years
In 2002, a Dera sadhvi wrote an anonymous letter to then PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee saying she was raped by the Dera chief
The verdict was delivered amid unprecedented security as thousands of Dera followers gathered in Panchkula.
Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh was Friday found guilty of raping two ‘sadhvis’ (female followers) by the CBI court in Panchkula, Haryana. The quantum of the sentence will be announced on Monday, August 28. The Dera chief faces up to seven years in jail.
The CBI had filed an FIR against Ram Rahim in 2002 and the case came to trial in 2008. Both Punjab and Haryana are in heavy lockdown as thousands of followers of Ram Rahim Singh are on the roads. Trains and bus services have been cancelled. Schools and colleges are closed. Paramilitary forces are patrolling the area around the CBI court in Panchkula.
In the letter, the sadhvi also accused Gurmeet Ram Rahim of raping several other female followers inside the sprawling Dera campus on the outskirts of Sirsa in the state of Haryana.
*The Punjab and Haryana high court took suo motu - of its own accord - cognizance of the sadhvi's letter and directed the CBI to register a sexual exploitation case against the Dera chief in 2002. The CBI then registered a case against Gurmeet Ram Rahim, based on the sadhvi's letter.
The hearing in two separate murder cases against Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh and others began here on Saturday in a special CBI court amid tight security.
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