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The Punjab and Haryana High Court has acquitted Dera Sacha Sauda main Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh successful the 2002 execution lawsuit of a journalist, sect head's lawyer Jitender Khurana said connected Saturday (March 7, 2026).
The tribunal acquitted the Dera main much than 7 years aft helium was convicted and sentenced to beingness imprisonment.
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"The tribunal has acquitted him successful the execution lawsuit of writer Ram Chander Chhatrapati," Khurana said.
Singh and 3 others were convicted successful 2019 for the execution of the writer successful Haryana's Sirsa. Chhatrapati was changeable extracurricular his location successful October 2002 aft his paper 'Poora Sach' published an anonymous missive narrating the alleged intersexual exploitation of women followers astatine the Dera office successful Sirsa.
Singh is besides serving a 20-year jailhouse term, fixed successful 2017 for raping 2 of his disciples. Following his condemnation successful the case, helium was lodged successful the Sunaria jailhouse successful Haryana's Rohtak.
