Haryana (Chandigarh): A special CBI court in Haryana on Friday convicted Dera Sacha Sauda's Gurmeet Ram Rahim and four others in the former Dera chief Ranjit Singh murder case. The quantum of sentence will be pronounced by the Court on October 12.
The main witness Khatta Singh, Gurmeet Ram Rahim's former driver had testified against the self-claimed godman.
Khatta Singh had revealed to the court that the Dera chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim believed that Ranjit Singh was behind penning and sending letters of sexual exploitation of women inmates to different agencies.
According to Khatta Singh, Ranjit Singh had asked his sister to write an anonymous letter about the ongoing sexual exploitation of women inmates. The witness said he was present when Gurmeet Ram Rahim ordered the 'kill' on Ranjit Singh on June 16, 2002.
Ranjit Singh, the manager of the Dera Sacha Sauda Sirsa, was killed on July 10 2003.
At present, Gurmeet Ram Rahim is serving a 20-year sentence in Rohtak's Sunaria jail for sexually abusing two women inmates. He is also sentenced to life imprisonment in the murder case of Ramchandra Chhatrapati, the journalist who broke the news of the sexual exploitations and various misdeeds in Dera Sacha Sauda Sirsa.
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