Rape convict Gurmeet Ram Rahim cannot be given parole with out court docket permission, the Punjab and Haryana High Court on Thursday dominated. This comes after the rape convict was given a 50-day parole in January, which was his seventh parole in almost 10 months and ninth within the final 4 years.
The High Court ordered the Haryana government to make sure Rahim’s give up on March 10, the day of the top of his parole, and likewise requested the state government to hunt the court docket’s permission first earlier than granting parole to the rape convict the subsequent time.
What had the government mentioned in January?
Soon after Rahim was granted a 50-day parole in January this yr, Haryana minister Chaudhary Ranjit Singh Chautala had mentioned that parole adopted commonplace jail guide procedures. He said that every one prisoners, together with Ram Rahim, are entitled to 70 days’ parole and 30 days furlough, with parole being non-compulsory for the prisoner.
“According to the rules of the jail manual, any prisoner is given parole for 70 days and furlough for 30 days. Furlough is given only once. Parole can be taken twice. It is the choice of the prisoner. There are 23 to 24,000 prisoners in the jails of Haryana and there are the same rules for all. A prisoner who has been sentenced to 7 years can apply through the District Magistrate,” he had mentioned.
Rahim’s 50-day parole got here simply 29 days after he walked again into Rohtak’s Sunaria jail after spending 21 days out on a furlough.
He has been incarcerated since 2017 in Haryana’s Sunaria jail the place he’s serving a 20-year time period for raping two ladies disciples at his ashram’s headquarters in Sirsa.
CBI case towards Ram Rahim
CBI had registered the case on the orders handed by the High Court of Punjab and Haryana in 2003 and brought over the investigation of the case earlier registered at Police Station Sadar in Kurukshetra. It was alleged that Ranjit Singh, a resident of village Khanpur Kolian, Kurukshetra was murdered on July 10, 2002, when he was working in his fields at village Khanpur Kolian of District Kurukshetra in Haryana.
After a radical investigation, CBI filed a cost sheet in 2007 towards six accused and expenses had been framed in 2008 whereas, on October 8, 2021, the court docket convicted Rahim and 4 others in reference to former Dera supervisor Ranjit Singh’s homicide case.
