Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim was released from Rohtak jail after receiving 40-day parole from a court in Haryana. He has been serving a sentence for rape and murder in Rohtak’s Sunaria jail.
This is the second time when Ram Rahim had requested parole of 40 days to attend an event. Earlier, he was out on parole for 40 days in October 2022.
He was also granted parole ahead of the Haryana panchayat election and Adampur Assembly bypoll. Rahim was granted parole for a month on June 17.
The Dera chief has been incarcerated since 2017 in Haryana’s Sunaria jail where he is serving a 20-year term for raping two women disciples at his ashram’s headquarters in Sirsa. Earlier in February, the Dera chief was granted three weeks’ furlough.
He was convicted by a special CBI court in Panchkula in August 2017 for raping two women followers.
