Reported By: | Edited By: DNA Internet Team |Source: PTI |Up up to now: Feb 22, 2022, 10: 34 PM IST
Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh has been given Z-plus security quilt throughout his 21-day unlock on furlough from a Haryana penitentiary where he has been serving a sentence, officials mentioned on Tuesday.
Singh became as soon as given the excessive-category security quilt after his unlock on February 7 ensuing from a excessive-stage menace to his existence from “pro-Khalistan” options, they mentioned.
“In case the prisoner is released on parole, Z-plus security protection or equivalent might be equipped as per gift rules, regulations etc as he faces a excessive-stage menace from radical Sikh extremists in India and in one other nation,” a fresh verbal replace from a senior Haryana police legitimate to the Rohtak Fluctuate Commissioner mentioned.
“There are reliable inputs, in relation to the menace to Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh from pro-Khalistan activists,” the legitimate verbal replace added. The Dera Sacha Sauda sect chief became as soon as released on February 7 after the Haryana authorities concluded that he would no longer tumble within the category of hardcore prisoners.
He is currently in his Gurugram ashram and has been saved below heavy security. The appropriate concept on whether Singh would tumble within the category of hardcore prisoners became as soon as earlier sought on the insistence of penitentiary authorities sooner than he became as soon as granted furlough.
The 21-day furlough had attain appropriate days sooner than the meeting polls in Punjab, where the sect has a large assortment of followers, particularly in Bathinda, Sangrur, Patiala and Muktsar.
On February 7, Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar had rejected any link between the sect chief’s unlock from Sunaria penitentiary in Rohtak district and the Punjab elections on February 20. “I focus on it is a accident and has no connection with the polls,” he had mentioned.
The sect chief is serving a 20-12 months penitentiary term for raping two ladies disciples at his ashram in Sirsa, where the dera is headquartered. He became as soon as convicted by a distinct CBI courtroom in Panchkula in August 2017.
He became as soon as closing 12 months also convicted along with four others for hatching a conspiracy to execute Ranjit Singh, a Dera manager, in 2002.
In 2019, the Dera chief and three others had been also convicted for the damage of a journalist over 16 years within the past.
He had been held guilty for hatching a prison conspiracy along with his co-accused for these killings. He had been convicted below allotment 120-B learn with allotment 302 of IPC.
