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Murder case of Ranjit Singh: Dera chief and four others sentenced to life in prison

Special CBI court docket in Haryana's Panchkula on Monday provided existence imprisonment to all of the accused, along with Dera Sacha Sauda's Gurmeet Ram Rahim and 4 others in Ranjit Singh homicide case. A excellent of Rs 31 lakh has been levied on Ram Rahim and Rs 50,000 on the ultimate accused.


A few days ago, the court docket had held Dera Sacha Sauda chief responsible within the homicide case of Dera follower Ranjit Singh.


Ram Rahim Singh is currently serving a 20 years' rigorous imprisonment for the rape of two girls fans at Rohtak's Sunaria prison. He turned into also convicted for life for the homicide of Sirsa-based totally journalist Ram Chander Chattrapati.


Apart from Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, the CBI court docket had also convicted four others -- Krishan Lal, Sabdil Singh, Jasbir Singh and Avtar Singh -- in the equal case.


Ranjit Singh, a resident of Khanpur Kolian village in Kurukshetra, became murdered on July 10, 2002 when he changed into operating in the fields of his village.


The CBI had registered the stated case at the orders surpassed by way of the Punjab and Haryana High Court in 2003 after which it took over the research of the case which became earlier registered at Police Station Sadar, Thanesar in Kurukshetra. He changed into murdered for his suspected position in the stream of an anonymous letter, which narrated how girls have been allegedly being sexually exploited by using the sect head at the Dera headquarters.


According to the CBI price sheet, the Dera leader believed that Ranjit Singh was behind the circulate of the nameless letter and hatched a conspiracy to kill him.


After investigating the case for four years, the CBI filed a chargesheet in July, 2007 towards six accused and prices have been framed in December, 2008. During the pendency of trial, one accused died last year and trial court cases have been abated towards him.

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