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Dera Sacha Sauda main Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, serving a 20-year jailhouse word for raping 2 of his disciples, walked retired of the Sunaria jailhouse successful Rohtak connected Monday (January 5, 2026) aft helium was granted a 40-day parole — the 15th clip since his condemnation successful 2017.
Gurmeet Singh volition enactment astatine his Sirsa-headquartered Dera during the 40-day period, said Dera spokesperson and advocator Jitender Khurana.
Gurmeet Singh and 3 others were besides convicted successful 2019 for the execution of a writer much than 16 years ago.
He past stepped retired of situation connected a 40-day parole successful August 2025. He was granted a 21-day furlough successful April 2025 and a 30-day parole successful January 2025, up of the February 5 Delhi assembly polls.
Similarly, helium walked retired of situation connected a 20-day parole connected October 1, 2024, days earlier the October 5 Haryana assembly polls.
In August 2024, Gurmeet 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.
Sikh organisations, specified arsenic the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee, person successful the past criticised the assistance of alleviation to Gurmeet Singh.
In May 2024, the Punjab and Haryana High Court acquitted Singh and 4 others successful the 2002 execution of the sect's erstwhile manager, Ranjit Singh, citing "tainted and sketchy" investigations into the substance and overturning a peculiar CBI tribunal bid which sentenced them to beingness imprisonment.
The CBI had held Gurmeet Singh blameworthy of hatching a transgression conspiracy with his co-accused.
Gurmeet Singh remained astatine his Dera's ashram successful Baghpat territory of Uttar Pradesh during galore of the past 14 occasions erstwhile helium came retired of prison.
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.
