NEW DELHI: Dera Sacha Sauda (DSS) chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh has been given 20-day parole forward of the Haryana Meeting polls.
Haryana authorities have granted 20-day parole to Ram Rahim Singh, official sources informed information company PTI on Tuesday.
This comes a day after Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) of Haryana made it clear that the state authorities could take into account Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh’s request for a short-term launch from jail on emergency parole.
“After receiving a report from the state authorities, I’ve really useful that the division could take into account him for launch topic to the correctness of the circumstances he (Dera Chief) has talked about in his request for emergency parole and on imposition of situations for such launch,” Pankaj Aggarwal, CEO Haryana informed TOI.
Earlier, the Haryana Congress wrote to the Election Fee of India (ECI) towards Ram Rahim’s short-term parole, expressing apprehension that he could affect the Haryana voters.
On Saturday, the CEO had requested the authorities to elucidate the “compelling” circumstances below which the short-term launch of the DSS chief for 20 days is required.
The reason was sought by the CEO after jail authorities in Haryana had sought CEO’s approval in view of imposition of mannequin code of conduct on account of state meeting polls scheduled to be held on October 5.
In March this yr, the Punjab and Haryana excessive courtroom had directed the Haryana authorities “to not take into account” any software for parole by Ram Rahim “with out permission of this courtroom”.
In August this yr, Singh was granted a 21-day furlough.
At the moment, Singh, who’s lodged in Rohtak’s Sunaria jail, throughout his short-term launch interval, had sought to remain on the Dera ashram in Barnawa in Uttar Pradesh’s Baghpat.
Notably, up to now a few of his paroles and furloughs have coincided with polls in Punjab and Haryana and neighbouring states. He was granted three weeks’ furlough from February 7, 2022, barely two weeks earlier than the Punjab Meeting polls.
Singh was sentenced in 2017 and is serving a 20-year sentence for raping two of his disciples. In Could, the excessive courtroom acquitted Singh and 4 others within the 2002 homicide of the sect’s former supervisor Ranjit Singh, citing “tainted and sketchy” investigations within the matter.
A particular CBI courtroom had sentenced them to life imprisonment within the practically 20-year-old homicide case. Singh had been held responsible of hatching a legal conspiracy along with his co-accused.
