Dera Sacha Sauda chief and rape convict Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh has been granted 30-day parole.
He will be walking out of the Sunaria jail in Haryana’s Rohtak on Tuesday after being granted parole, sources told PTI.
Singh is serving a 20-year sentence given in 2017 for raping two of his disciples.
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The parole comes days ahead of polls in Delhi on February 5.
The Sirsa-headquartered Dera Sacha Sauda has a large following in several states, including Haryana, Punjab, Rajasthan, and others.
In Haryana, the Dera has a significant number of followers across multiple districts, such as Sirsa, Fatehabad, Kurukshetra, Kaithal, and Hisar.
The Dera Sacha Sauda chief, along with four others, was convicted for hatching a conspiracy to kill Ranjit Singh, a Dera manager. Ram Rahim and three more were also convicted in 2019 for the murder of a journalist more than 16 years ago.
(This is a developing story)