Dera Sacha Sauda chief <a href="https://www.mid-day.com/news/india-news/article/dera-sacha-sauda-chief-gurmeet-ram-rahim-singh-walks-out-of-jail-on-21-day-furlough-23375060" target="_blank" rel="none noopener">Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh</a>, who is serving a 20-year jail term for raping two of his disciples and is currently lodged in the Sunaria jail in Haryana's Rohtak, was again granted a 40-day parole, sources told PTI on Sunday.
<h2>Latest parole comes months after similar relief granted in August last year</h2>
His latest parole comes months after he was granted a similar parole in August last year.
Singh will come out of prison for the 15th time since he was convicted in 2017.
<h2>Ram Rahim serving 20-year sentence in rape case, also convicted in journalist murder</h2>
The <a href="https://www.mid-day.com/news/india-news/article/dera-chief-gurmeet-ram-rahim-brought-back-to-sunaria-jail-in-rohtak-23216360" target="_blank" rel="none noopener">Dera Sacha Sauda</a> head is serving a 20-year sentence given in 2017 for raping two of his disciples.
Singh and three others were also convicted in 2019 for the murder of a journalist more than 16 years ago. He was granted a 21-day furlough in April 2025 and a 30-day parole in January 2025, ahead of the February 5 Delhi assembly polls.
Similarly, he was allowed a 20-day parole on October 1, 2024, days before the October 5 Haryana assembly polls.
In August 2024, Singh was granted a 21-day furlough. He was also permitted a three-week furlough from February 7, 2022, barely two weeks before the <a href="https://www.mid-day.com/news/india-news/article/countdown-for-bhagwant-manns-govt-has-started-crisis-brewing-in-punjab-aap-claims-bjp-23480920" target="_blank" rel="none noopener">Punjab assembly polls</a>.
Prior to his latest parole, Singh has come out of prison 14 times since being convicted in 2017.
<h2>Sikh bodies have repeatedly opposed repeated parole to Dera chief</h2>
Sikh organisations, such as Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee, have in the past criticised the grant of relief to Singh.
In May 2024, the Punjab and Haryana High Court acquitted Singh and four others in the 2002 murder of the sect's former manager Ranjit Singh, citing "tainted and sketchy" investigations into the matter.
Earlier, a special <a href="https://www.mid-day.com/mumbai/mumbai-news/article/cbi-court-denies-bail-to-class-12-student-in-rs-3-7-crore-cyber-fraud-case-23598567" target="_blank" rel="none noopener">CBI court</a> sentenced them to life imprisonment in this case. It held Singh guilty of hatching a criminal conspiracy with his co-accused.
On many of the 13 occasions in the past, when Singh was out of jail, he remained at the Dera's ashram in Uttar Pradesh's Bagpat district.
The Sirsa-headquartered Dera Sacha Sauda has a number of followers in Haryana, Punjab, Rajasthan and other states. In Haryana, the Dera has a sizable number of followers in many districts, including Sirsa, Fatehabad, Kurukshetra, Kaithal and Hisar.
(With inputs from PTI)

Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, who is serving a 20-year jail term for raping two of his disciples and is currently lodged in the Sunaria jail

Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim released on 40-day parole

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His latest parole comes months after he was granted a similar parole in August last year. Singh will come out of prison for the 15th time since he was convicted in 2017

Jailed Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim again granted 40-day parole

Latest parole comes months after similar relief granted in August last year

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