New Delhi: Dera Sachcha Sauda senior Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh has once then gotten 30 days of parole. On Tuesday morning he came out of Sunaria jail of Rohtak. This is the 16th time that Ram Rahim has been granted temporary relief without his conviction. He is serving a 20-year sentence in a rape case. It has been confirmed by the jail wardship and his lawyer that during the parole period he will stay at the Dera headquarters in Sirsa.
Has politics heated up then regarding parole?
Like every time, this time too a ruckus has started. The opposition often alleges that the Haryana government gives relief to Ram Rahim only virtually the elections. The wordplay from the government and jail officials is the same old, everything is stuff washed-up as per the law and rules. This time moreover the wardship has tabbed it a routine process.
How many times has Ram Rahim come out of jail till now?
Ram Rahim got parole for 40 days in January 2025. Then 21 days furlough in April 2025. Even during Haryana and Delhi elections, there was a lot of uproar when he came out. If you calculate, he has been out of jail for increasingly than 400 days in the last few years.
In which cases is the Dera senior serving punishment?
There is a long list of cases versus Ram Rahim. In 2017, the CBI magistrate found him guilty in the specimen of rape of two sexuality monks and sentenced him to 20 years. Then in 2019, he was moreover convicted in the journalist Ramchandra Chhatrapati murder case. Apart from this, many other cases related to Dera are going on in variegated courts.
Have questions been raised well-nigh parole before?
Sikh organizations and social organizations have protested versus this many times. Many organizations including SGPC speak that governments take decisions without looking at the vote bank. The wardship says every time that the allegations are wrong. However, during parole, the police alimony an eye on what Ram Rahim is doing and whom he is meeting. But still, every time parole is granted, politics starts.
