Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar has mentioned that he has no position within the parole granted to Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh as jails have their very own guidelines.
Ram Rahim, serving a 20-year jail time period for raping two feminine disciples at his ashram in Sirsa, was granted parole for 40 days final week.
The determination to grant him parole forward of the Adampur by-election and panchayat elections in Haryana on November 3 has created an uproar.
For the previous few days, Ram Rahim has been giving on-line discourses from his Barnawa Ashram in Uttar Pradesh. These discourses have been attended by lots of his followers, together with a number of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders from Haryana.
Asked about Ram Rahim’s parole at a press convention right here, Khattar mentioned he had no position in it.
“I had no position on this…. Courts declare imprisonment and a convict goes to jail. After that the jail guidelines apply to all of the prisoners.
When requested concerning the timing of Ram Rahim’s parole, the chief minister refused to remark saying he had nothing extra to say on the difficulty.
Ram Rahim, together with 4 others, was additionally convicted final yr for conspiring to kill Dera supervisor Ranjit Singh in 2002. The Dera chief and three others have been convicted in 2019 for the homicide of a journalist greater than 16 years in the past. ,
In February, Ram Rahim was given a three-week go away earlier than the Punjab Assembly elections.
With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
