Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh gets 21-day furlough, walks out of jail again

The Dera chief is serving a 20-year jail term for the rape of two women disciples at his ashram in Haryana’s Sirsa.

The repeated paroles and furloughs given to the Dera chief had been challenged in the Punjab and Haryana High Court. Tuesday’s release on furlough comes days after the high court disposed of a petition that challenged the grant of temporary release to him.

While rejecting the plea filed by the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC), the court had observed that it should be considered by the competent authority without any “arbitrariness or favouritism”. The high court left it to the Haryana prisons department to decide on the Dera chief’s application seeking furlough.

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