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Dera Sacha Sauda Chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim gets 20 years’ jail, Rs 30 lakh fine for raping two women



Bolly Tolly News, kolkata ,29th August,2017 : Policemen walk past a poster of Baba Ram Rahim while patrolling a street in Sirsa after the pronouncement of quantum of sentence for the Dera chief in the two rape cases against him on Monday. | PTI


CHANDIGARH: Self-styled Godman and Dera Sacha Sauda Chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh was today sentenced to 20 years’ imprisonment for the rape and criminal intimidation of two ‘Sadhvis’ (women followers) who were residing in a hostel located on the premises of the dera back in 1999. He was also slapped with a fine of Rs 30 lakh.

The sentence is 10 years each for two rapes that will run consecutively, and not concurrently. The fine is also Rs 15 lakh in each case, of which Rs 14 lakh each must be paid to each victim.

Special Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI)  judge Jagdeep Singh pronounced the quantum of sentence in the designated special court created in the library of the Sunaria Jail in Rohtak. Singh was flown down in a government helicopter to conduct court proceedings. Both the prosecution and defence lawyers were given 10 minutes each to put forward their arguments on the quantum of sentence. The CBI lawyers sought the maximum sentence calling it the rarest-of--rare case, whereas as the defence pleaded for leniency on grounds of the social work done by Ram Rahim and on the grounds that he had health issues.



Rape convict Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh was on Monday sentenced to 20 years jail for the rape and criminal intimidation of two female disciples.
The sect chief has been sentenced to 10 years imprisonment in each of the two cases of rape.
Both sentences will run consecutively. Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) special court judge Jagdeep Singh announced the sentences here on Monday.

The court also imposed a fine of Rs 30 lakh on the sect chief. The rape victims will get Rs 14 lakh each as compensation from this amount.
The court had on Friday held the Dera chief guilty of rape and criminal intimidation of the two female disciples in 1999. The complaint in the case was filed in 2002.
The quantum of sentence was announced by Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) special court judge Jagdeep Singh at a specially set up court inside the library of the District Jail in Sunaria near Rohtak town in Haryana.


The CBI judge had on Friday held the Dera chief guilty of rape and criminal intimidation of the two female disciples in 1999. The complaint in the case was filed in 2002.
While the defence (sect) counsel had argued for minimum punishment for the disgraced sect chief saying that he was a social worker and had health issues, the prosecution side (CBI counsel) sought maximum punishment for the rape convict given his conduct.
There was drama inside the special court near Rohtak as the convicted sect chief broke down and pleaded with folded hands before the judge.
After the sentence was announced, Ram Rahim sat down on the floor and wept. He was taken away by jail wardens.


Ram Rahim was immediately medically examined by doctors and found to be fine.
Earlier, the judge was specially flown to Rohtak, 70 km from Delhi, on Monday for announcing the sentence at the special court.


Ram Rahim was brought and lodged in the jail (Prisoner No. 1997) here after his conviction by the CBI court in Panchkula, adjoining Chandigarh, on Friday.
There were reports of fresh violence in Sirsa town, 260 km from here, on Monday afternoon. Two vehicles were set on fire by Dera followers, sources said.

To keep Dera followers, who had indulged in large-scale violence in Panchkula on Friday after he was convicted, in check, authorities in Haryana on Monday issued shoot-at-sight orders in and around the District Jail at Sunaria.Thirty-eight people were killed and 264 others were injured in the violence in Panchkula and Sirsa towns in Haryana.

Ambala to a special court in Panchkula.  In 2014, Gurmeet Ram Rahim’ statement was recorded after examination of the prosecution witnesses, and on August 17 arguments concluded in the case.
 Immediately after his conviction on Friday, large-scale violence broke out in Panchkula and Sirsa and at other places in Haryana and neighbouring Punjab which left 38 people dead and 267 injured.
 Son of murdered journalist who exposed Ram Rahim welcomes verdict 

Anshul Chhatrapati, the son of murdered Sirsa-based journalist Ram Chandra Chhatrapati, welcomed the CBI special court judgment. “ Though he should have been given life imprisonment, I am satisfied with the order of the court. It has given us strength to our fight against his might,’’ he said. Chhatrapati was murdered in October 2002 allegedly for exposing the ‘misdeeds’ of Ram Rahim in his vernacular newspaper “Poora Sach”. He was shot dead allegedly by sect supporters at Ram Rahim’s behest.




The murder case is pending before the special CBI court in Panchkula and hearing of final arguments is likely to be held next month.

Several CBI cases against Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh

1) The killing of Haryana-based journalist Ram Chander Chhatrapati for his writings against the Dera is also under trial. Chhatrapati was shot on August 24, 2002 by two alleged dera supporters. While one of the accused was caught on the spot, the other was arrested a few days later. Chhatrapati succumbed to the gunshot wounds on November 21, 2002. A case was then registered by the CBI.

2) Dera chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh is one of the accused in the Ranjit Singh murder case. Singh, who had distanced himself from the Dera, was called to Sirsa in June 2002 and threatened by accused Avtar Singh and Inder Sain to seek apology from Gurmeet Ram Rahim for having circulated anonymous letters. In July 2002, he was found shot dead.

3) In 2014, the CBI has also registered a case on the directions of Punjab and Haryana High Court against Ram Rahim for the forcible castration of 400 followers. Investigations are still in the case and the central agency has recorded the statements of about a dozen such victims.

4) In another case, the CBI filed a closure report in 2010 as there were allegations that the dera chief and three others had hatched a conspiracy and got his driver Faquir Chand disappeared in 1991.



Sedition case against Dera followers

Twenty-four people, including six women (Garima, Parul and Neha from Fatehabad, Sheena from Hansi, Amarjeet Kaur and Gurjeet Kaur from Sirsa) have been arrested for sedition and other heinous charges while 15 others have been held for breach of prohibitory orders in Sirsa. They were nabbed on April 25.

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