The Punjab and Haryana Prime Courtroom on Saturday acquitted Dera Sacha Sauda leader Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh within the 2002 homicide case of journalist Ram Chander Chhatrapati, his attorney Jitender Khurana stated.
The top courtroom cleared the Dera leader of the costs greater than seven years after he were convicted and sentenced to lifestyles imprisonment within the case.
Khurana stated that “The top courtroom department bench headed by means of Leader Justice Sheel Nagu on Saturday acquitted him within the homicide case of journalist Ram Chander Chhatrapati.”
The department bench delivered the decision whilst listening to appeals that challenged the 2019 conviction within the case, he added. Alternatively, the courtroom upheld the conviction of 3 different accused within the case, Khurana stated. The journalist’s son, Anshul Chhatrapati, stated he would problem the decision ahead of the Ideally suited Courtroom.
Ram Rahim and 3 others were convicted by means of a distinct Central Bureau of Investigation courtroom in Panchkula in January 2019 for the homicide of the journalist in Sirsa, Haryana.
Chhatrapati was once shot outdoor his area in October 2002 after his newspaper Poora Sach printed an nameless letter alleging sexual exploitation of girls fans on the Dera headquarters in Sirsa.
The journalist later died of his accidents. A case was once registered wherein Ram Rahim was once named as a conspirator. The investigation was once passed over to the CBI in 2006. The Dera leader is recently lodged in Sunaria prison, Rohtak. He’s serving a 20-year jail sentence awarded in 2017 for raping two of his disciples.
Anshul Chhatrapati described the acquittal as a setback for his circle of relatives.
“This is a setback for us, however no matter prison treatments we have now, we will be able to use them. We can problem this verdict within the Ideally suited Courtroom. We think that the investigating company, CBI, would additionally problem the top courtroom verdict,” he stated.
In Might 2024, the Punjab and Haryana Prime Courtroom had additionally acquitted Ram Rahim and 4 others within the 2002 homicide case of the sect’s former supervisor Ranjit Singh, pronouncing the investigation was once “tainted and sketchy”.
Previous, a distinct CBI courtroom had sentenced them to lifestyles imprisonment if that’s the case, protecting Ram Rahim responsible of legal conspiracy along side the co-accused.
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