Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, serving a 20-year jail term for raping two of his disciples, was granted a three-week furlough on November 20, official sources said.
The 56-year-old Dera chief is lodged in Sunaria jail in Haryana’s Rohtak district.
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During his temporary release period of 21 days, Singh will go to the Dera Sacha Sauda Ashram in Barnawa in Uttar Pradesh’s Baghpat, they said.
The Sirsa-headquartered sect’s chief had applied for temporary release.
Previously, Singh had walked out of the Sunaria jail on a 30-day parole on July 30.
Prior to that, the Dera chief had been granted a 40-day parole in January. In October last year too, he was granted a 40-day parole.
Prior to his October parole, he had come out of the prison on a month-long parole in June last year. Besides, he was granted a three weeks’ furlough from February 7, 2022.
In 2021, the Dera chief, along with four others, was also convicted for hatching a conspiracy to kill Ranjit Singh, a Dera manager.
The Dera chief and three others were also convicted in 2019 for the murder of a journalist more than 16 years ago.
