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Jailed ‘godman’ Gurmeet Ram Rahim gets life term for journalist’s murder

Special CBI Court judge Jagdeep Singh had convicted Ram Rahim and three others for journalist's murder in 2002

Panchkula: Self-styled ‘godman’ Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh has been sentenced to life in prison for the murder of a journalist in 2002, according to news agency ANI.
The three others who were convicted along with Ram Rahim in the murder last Friday have also been given the life term by a special court in Haryana’s Panchkula through video conference this evening.
Elaborate security arrangements have been made in Panchkula and Sirsa – headquarters of the Dera Sacha Sauda sect headed by Ram Rahim – and other parts of Haryana to maintain law and order situation, officials said.
Security has also been stepped up outside the Panchkula court complex with Haryana police putting up barricades on roads leading to the court.
The court had on Wednesday accepted the Haryana government’s plea seeking appearance of the Dera Sacha Sauda sect head through video conference during the pronouncement of quantum of sentence in the journalist murder case.
The state government had said the movement of the Dera chief could lead to a law and order situation.
The 51-year-old Sirsa-based sect head is currently serving a 20-year-prison term in Rohtak’s Sunaria jail for raping two of his women followers.
The three other convicts – Kuldeep Singh, Nirmal Singh and Krishan Lal – are lodged in Ambala jail.
On January 11, Special CBI Court judge Jagdeep Singh had convicted Ram Rahim and three others for the murder of journalist Ram Chander Chhatrapati in 2002. They had appeared through video conference when the court convicted them.

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