Rape Convict Gurmeet Ram Rahim Gets Parole Again, Out Of Jail For 40 Days News24 –

The Haryana government on Tuesday granted a 40-day parole to Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, a convict in rape and murder cases. This comes three months after the self-styled godman received a 21-day furlough.

Ram Rahim was released from Sunaria Jail in Haryana’s Rohtak and left for the Dera Ashram in Sirsa on Tuesday morning. He has reportedly walked out of prison for the 14th time since 2017.

In 2017, Ram Rahim was sentenced to 20 years in prison for raping two of his disciples. Later, in 2019, the Dera Sacha Sauda chief, along with three others, was convicted for the murder of journalist Ram Chander Chhatrapati.

Rahim was awarded a life sentence for the murder of his manager, Ranjit Singh, in 2002. However, he and four others were acquitted in May 2024, citing “tainted and sketchy” investigations in the matter.

In January this year, Ram Rahim was granted a 20-day parole and a 21-day furlough on April 9.

In 2022, he was released from prison on three separate occasions: once for 21 days in February during the Punjab assembly elections, again in June for a month when civic body polls took place in Haryana, and later in October for 40 days during the Haryana by-elections. Even earlier, in October 2020, he had been out on parole for 40 days during the Haryana assembly elections.

However, he wasn’t allowed to take part in any election activities – no speeches, no campaigning, and he couldn’t even stay in the states while the elections were going on.