On Friday, Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh who is serving a prison sentence for rape and murder cases, has been granted parole for a month.
Since 2017, Gurmeet has been imprisoned in Haryana's Sunaria jail, serving a 20-year sentence for raping two female disciples at his ashram's headquarters in Sirsa.
Earlier in February, the Dera chief was granted three weeks' furlough.
- While parole means the release of a prisoner either temporarily for a special purpose or completely before the expiry of a sentence, on the promise of good behaviour, a furlough is a short-term temporary release of convicts from jail.
A special CBI court in Panchkula had convicted him in August 2017 for raping two women followers.
While, on October 8, 2021, the court convicted Rahim and four others in connection with former Dera manager Ranjit Singh's murder case.
Ranjit Singh was murdered in 2002 on the premises of Dera Sacha Sauda.
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