Dera Sacha Sauda (DSS) chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim gets parole

CHANDIGARH: Gurmeet Ram Rahim, a convict in rape and murder cases heading Dera Sacha Sauda (DSS) Sirsa, was released by the Haryana government on Tuesday morning on 30-day parole.
His release coincides with the upcoming state assembly polls in Delhi scheduled to be held on February 5.
He was released from the Sunaria jail in Rohtak on Tuesday early morning.
However, it is for the first time since he was first convicted and jailed in 2017 in rape cases, the Dera chief has been permitted to visit the Sirsa-based Dera headquarters.
Earlier, he was not allowed to stay in his Sirsa-based Ashram during his release on parole or fulough and was permitted to stay at Shah Satnam Ji Ashram, Dera Sacha Sauda, Barnava, Baghpat in Uttar Pradesh.
The Dera chief is currently serving a sentence in Rohtak’s Sunaria jail since August 2017. On August 25, 2017, a special CBI court in Panchkula convicted him for the rape of Sadhvis (female disciples) and sentenced him to two terms of 20 years imprisonment.
He is currently serving a sentence for rape and a journalist’s murder case. Around 40 persons lost their lives in August 2017 after violence took place in Panchkula and other parts of Haryana and Punjab after he was convicted for rape cases.