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Dera Sacha Sauda main Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, serving a 20-year condemnation for raping 2 women disciples, walked retired of Sunaria jailhouse successful Rohtak, Haryana, connected Tuesday greeting (May 26, 2026) aft being granted a 30-day parole — the 16th clip helium had been released from situation since his condemnation successful 2017.
The Dera main volition enactment astatine his Sirsa-headquartered Dera during the parole period, said Dera spokesperson and advocator Jitender Khurana.
His latest merchandise comes months aft helium was granted a akin parole successful January. Before that, helium was retired connected a 40-day parole successful August 2025, a 21-day furlough successful April 2025 and a 30-day parole successful January 2025 up of the February 5 Delhi assembly polls.
He was besides granted a 20-day parole connected October 1, 2024, days earlier the October 5 Haryana assembly polls. a 21-day furlough successful August 2024, and a three-week furlough successful February 2022, hardly 2 weeks earlier the Punjab assembly polls.
Sikh organisations, including the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee, person antecedently criticised the repeated assistance of parole and furlough to Ram Rahim.
In March, the Punjab and Haryana High Court had acquitted Ram Rahim Singh successful the 2002 execution lawsuit of a journalist, 7 years aft helium was convicted and sentenced to beingness imprisonment successful the lawsuit by a peculiar CBI court.
In May 2024, the High Court had overturned different peculiar CBI tribunal bid and acquitted Ram Rahim and 4 others successful the 2002 execution of the sect's erstwhile manager, Ranjit Singh.
The Sirsa-headquartered Dera Sacha Sauda has a fig of followers successful Haryana, Punjab, Rajasthan and different States. In Haryana, the Dera has a sizeable fig of followers successful galore districts, including Sirsa, Fatehabad, Kurukshetra, Kaithal and Hisar.
