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Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, who is serving a 20-year jail term for raping two of his disciples, walked out of Rohtak’s Sunaria jail on Wednesday after he was granted a 21-day furlough. This is his 13th temporary release from the jail since 2020. According to jail officials privy to the development, Gurmeet Ram Rahim is headed for the Sirsa-based headquarters of the sect, which he is visiting for the second since his conviction in 2017.
“This is the first time he that he will be spending his entire furlough period at the Sirsa-based sect,” the jail official, wishing anonymity said. Gurmeet Ram Rahim’s paroles and furloughs have shown a pattern where these collide with elections. On January 28, just eight days before the Delhi assembly elections, the dera chief was released on a 30-day parole.
During this, he spent 10 days at the Sirsa-based sect and the remaining at Baghpat dera in Uttar Pradesh. On February 28, he was brought back to the Sunaria jail after his parole ended. Before that, he was given a 20-day parole before Haryana went to the polls in October last year.
He was also released for 50 days in January last year. He got a 29-day parole in November 2023 before the Rajasthan assembly elections and was out on 30-day parole in July 2023 before the panchayat elections in Haryana. In October 2022, he got a 40-day parole before the Adampur assembly byelections in Haryana.
Besides, he got a 30-day parole in June 2022 before the Haryana municipal corporation elections and 21-day furlough in February 2022 before the Punjab assembly elections. On October 24, 2020, Gurmeet Ram Rahim was released from jail from sunrise to sunset to meet his ailing mother at a Gurugram hospital. The release coincided with the Baroda byelections in Sonepat.
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