Rape convict Gurmeet Ram Rahim out on parole, 2nd time in 2 months

Rape convict Gurmeet Ram Rahim has been granted a 50-day parole, 2 months after he was temporarily let out of jail for 21 days in November.

Gurmeet is serving a 20-year-jail term for raping two women. According to reports, this is the seventh time he has been granted parole in 24 months and ninth in 4 years.

The Dera chief had walked out of the Sunaria jail on a 30-day parole on July 30, 2023, while he was granted a 40-day parole in January last year as well.

In October 2022 too, he was granted a 40-day parole.

Before that, he had come out of prison on a month-long parole in June 2022. Besides, he was granted a three-week furlough on February 7, 2022.

In 2021, the Dera chief, along with four others, was also convicted for hatching a conspiracy to kill Ranjit Singh, a Dera manager.

The Dera chief and three others were convicted in 2019 for the murder of a journalist more than 16 years ago.

(with PTI inputs)