Out on 40-day Parole, Rape Convict Gurmeet Ram Rahim Cuts Cake with Sword

GG News Bureau

New Delhi, 24th Jan. Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim, who is currently on parole, was seen “celebrating” by cutting a cake with a sword.

The Sirsa-Dera chief, who is serving a 20-year sentence for rape and murder, walked out of the Sunaria Jail in Haryana’s Rohtak district on Saturday on a 40-day parole and arrived at his Barnawa Ashram in Uttar Pradesh’s Baghpat.

A video of Ram Rahim’s celebration with the massive cake has gone viral on social media.

Ram Rahim stated in his bail application that he wishes to attend an event commemorating the birth anniversary of former dera chief Shah Satnam Singh on January 25.

The Dera chief can be heard saying, “Got a chance after five years to celebrate like this, so I should cut at least five cakes,” in the alleged video that has surfaced on social media. This is the first cake.”

The public display of weapons, such as cutting a cake with a sword, is also prohibited under the Arms Act.

Ram Rahim virtually inaugurated a massive cleanliness campaign organized by his sect’s volunteers across multiple locations in Haryana and other states on Monday. A few senior Bharatiya Janata Party leaders from Haryana attended the event, including Rajya Sabha MP Krishan Lal Panwar and former minister Krishan Kumar Bedi.

Ram Rahim has been granted parole for the fourth time in the last 14 months, and the second time in less than three months. Previously, he was granted parole for 40 days in October 2022, just in time for the Haryana panchayat election and the Adampur Assembly bypoll.

In August 2017, a special CBI court in Panchkula convicted him of raping two female followers. On the orders of the High Court of Punjab and Haryana in 2003, the CBI registered the case and took over the investigation of the earlier registered case at Police Station Sadar in Kurukshetra.

Ranjit Singh, a resident of village Khanpur Kolian, Kurukshetra, was allegedly murdered on July 10, 2002, while working in his fields in village Khanpur Kolian, District Kurukshetra, Haryana.

Following a thorough investigation, the CBI filed a charge sheet against six accused in 2007, and charges were framed in 2008. On October 8, 2021, the court convicted Rahim and four others in connection with the murder of former Dera manager Ranjit Singh.