Chandigarh: Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh was booked on costs of injuring non secular sentiments over his alleged objectionable feedback on Guru Ravidas and Saint Kabir, police stated on Thursday.
The Jalandhar Rural police registered a case underneath part 295 A (deliberate and malicious intention of outraging the non secular emotions of any class) of the Indian Penal Code on a grievance by Jassi Talhan, chief of the Guru Ravidas Tiger Force, on the Patara police station, they stated.
The complainant alleged that the dera chief, whereas on parole not too long ago, made some objectionable feedback on Guru Ravidas and Saint Kabir on February 5 which have been shared by way of a YouTube channel.
A police official stated the FIR was lodged on March 7 and additional investigations have been underway.
The Dera chief, at present serving a 20-year jail time period for raping two disciples, was granted a 40-day parole on January 20. He is lodged in Rohtak’s Sunaria jail in Haryana.
In 2021, the Dera chief, together with 4 others, was additionally convicted of hatching a conspiracy to kill Ranjit Singh, a dera supervisor. The dera chief and three others have been additionally convicted in 2019 of the homicide of a journalist greater than 16 years in the past.
