After the court sentencing of Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh no instances of violence being reported, the district administration decided to relax curfew from 7.00 am to 7.00 pm at Sirsa and all the schools and colleges permitted to remain open. The decision was taken at a high-level meeting between authorities. Sirsa town is home to the sprawling Dera headquarters where the sect’s followers had gathered in large numbers ahead of Ram Rahim’s conviction.
After the court, Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh started crying before the justice and asked forgiveness. According to the source his first night in the prison he refuses to eat his dinner and also found walking and crying throughout the night in prison clothes.
The rapist godman who was known for maintaining a flamboyant lifestyle, and an unusually blingy sartorial sense, the 20-years rigorous imprisonment came as a setback for the Dera chief. His lawyers have decided to appeal to higher courts for some relief but till date, he has been allocated a single cell.
Ram Rahim has been punished for 20 years may be extended or not but the report found that he has more allegations of crime against sadhvis for rape. The self-proclaimed godman besides the rape case he also accused of encouraging his followers to undergo castrations to gain proximity with God and murder of journalist Ram Chander Chhatrapati who exposed Singh’s wrongdoings way back in 2002.
The Haryana government has sent a factual report to the Centre on the violence reported in various parts of the state following the conviction of Dera chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh in a rape case, but there is no mention of any lapses on part of the authority, officials said.
The BJP-led state government has, in the report, narrated the incidents which took place in various parts of Haryana, the number of deaths and those injured, and about the destruction of properties, they said. However, there is no mention of any lapses on part of the authority in controlling the large scale violence.
