Dera Sacha Sauda chief granted 30-day parole

A police official from Sirsa additionally confirmed that Singh has reached the Dera there.

Singh is serving a 20-year sentence given in 2017 for raping two of his disciples.

His parole comes days forward of the polls in Delhi.

Final time, Singh was granted a 20-day parole on 1 October 2024. That had additionally come forward of the 5 October Haryana meeting polls.

Previously, a few of Singh’s paroles and furloughs have coincided with polls in Punjab, Haryana and neighbouring states.

Sikhs organisations just like the SGPC have previously criticised the grant of reduction to Singh.

In August 2024, Singh was granted a 21-day furlough. He was granted three weeks’ furlough from 7 February 2022, barely two weeks earlier than the Punjab Meeting polls.

In Might, the excessive courtroom right here acquitted Singh and 4 others within the 2002 homicide of the sect’s former supervisor Ranjit Singh, citing “tainted and sketchy” investigations within the matter.

A particular CBI courtroom had sentenced them to life imprisonment within the almost 20-year-old homicide case. Singh had been held responsible of hatching a felony conspiracy together with his co-accused.

The Sirsa-headquartered Dera Sacha Sauda has quite a lot of followers in Haryana, Punjab, Rajasthan and different states.

In Haryana, the Dera has a large variety of followers in lots of districts, together with Sirsa, Fatehabad, Kurukshetra, Kaithal and Hisar.