Dera chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim tests positive for COVID-19
Controversial Dera Sacha Sauda sect chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, who’s serving a 20-year jail sentence in Haryana for raping two of his disciples, examined positive for COVID-19 on Sunday, jail authorities stated. He was taken to Medanta Hospital in Gurugram the place he was recognized coronavirus positive.
Earlier, he had undergone tests on the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences (PGIMS) in Rohtak after he complained of belly ache.
Ram Rahim (53) is at present lodged on the high-security Sunaria jail in Rohtak, 250 km from Chandigarh.
Last month, he was hospitalised on the PGMIS after he complained of low blood stress. But he had refused a Covid-19 check within the hospital.
The self-styled godman was sentenced to twenty years in jail in August 2017 for raping two ladies.
A particular CBI courtroom in Panchkula in January 2019 additionally sentenced him and three others to life imprisonment for the homicide of a journalist over 16 years in the past.
(With inputs from IANS)
