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Dera Sacha Sauda main Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, who is serving a 20-year jailhouse word for raping 2 of his disciples and is lodged successful the Sunaria jailhouse successful Haryana's Rohtak, was again granted a 40-day parole, said sources connected Sunday (January 4, 2026).
His latest parole comes months aft helium was granted a 40-day parole successful August past year.
Singh is serving a 20-year jailhouse term, sentenced successful 2017 for raping 2 of his disciples.
The Dera main and 3 others were besides convicted successful 2019 for the execution of a writer much than 16 years ago.
Besides parole successful August past year, helium was besides granted a 21-day furlough successful April and a 30-day parole successful January, up of the February 5 Delhi Assembly polls.
Similarly, helium was allowed a 20-day parole connected October 1, 2024, days earlier the October 5 Haryana Assembly polls.
In August 2024, Singh was granted a 21-day furlough. He was besides permitted a three-week furlough from February 7, 2022, hardly 2 weeks earlier the Punjab Assembly polls.
Prior to his latest parole, Singh has travel retired of situation 14 times since being convicted successful 2017.
Sikh organisations, specified arsenic Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee, person successful the past criticised the assistance of alleviation to Singh.
On galore of the 13 occasions successful the past, erstwhile Singh was retired of jail, helium remained astatine the Dera's ashram successful Uttar Pradesh's Bagpat district.
The Sirsa-headquartered Dera Sacha Sauda has a fig of followers successful Haryana, Punjab, Rajasthan and different states. In Haryana, the Dera has a sizable fig of followers successful galore districts, including Sirsa, Fatehabad, Kurukshetra, Kaithal and Hisar.
