Dera Sacha Sauda chief and writer-producer-director-actor Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh was on January 20 again granted a 40-day parole. The man is serving a 20-year jail term for raping two of his disciples and for murdering a journalist. The current parole comes three months after he was granted a similar parole. The last parole had ended on November 25, 2022. He had gone to his Barnawa ashram in Uttar Pradesh after his release on October 14, 2022.
Before the October 2022 parole, Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh had been released on a month-long parole in June last year. He was also granted three weeks’ furlough from February 7, 2022.