Out on parole, Dera chief Ram Rahim cuts giant cake with sword
NEW DELHI,JAN 24:Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, out on parole, was seen celebrating by cutting a cake with a sword on Monday. A video of Ram Rahim with a giant cake has gone viral.
Ram Rahim, who is serving a 20-year jail term for raping two of his disciples, walked out of the Sunaria prison in Haryana’s Rohtak on Saturday after being granted a 40-day parole and reached Barnawa Ashram in Uttar Pradesh’s Baghpat.
He had said in his bail application that he has to attend the birth anniversary celebrations of former Dera chief Shah Satnam Singh, which falls on Wednesday, January 25.
Incidentally, public display of weapons (cutting a cake with a sword) is prohibited under the Arms Act.
On Monday, Ram Rahim virtually inaugurated a mega cleanliness campaign organised by his sect’s volunteers across multiple locations in Haryana and in some other states.
The event saw the participation of a few senior BJP leaders from Haryana, including Rajya Sabha MP Krishan Lal Panwar and former minister Krishan Kumar Bedi.
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The Dera chief had been granted parole several times. The last time he was granted parole in October, 2022, Opposition parties alleged that he was released to influence the panchayat elections and Adampur Assembly by-election which were scheduled later last year.
A special CBI court convicted him in Panchkula in August 2017. In 2019, Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh and three others were pronounced guilty in the case of a journalist’s murder.
-The India Today
