Punjab and Haryana High Court continues its stay on CBI court in the Ranjit Singh murder case

The Punjab and Haryana High Court continues to stay the CBI court's verdict in the Ranjit Singh murder case. On Friday in a hearing related to the petitioner Jagseer Singh's (Ranjit Singh's son) appeal to change the judge or the CBI court, the High Court sought information from the CBI about the presiding judge and the public prosecutor appointed by the agency.

Sirsa (Haryana): The Punjab and Haryana High Court continues to stay the CBI court's verdict in the Ranjit Singh murder case. On Friday in a hearing related to the petitioner Jagseer Singh's (Ranjit Singh's son) appeal to change the judge or the CBI Court, the High Court sought information from the CBI about the presiding judge and the public prosecutor appointed by the agency. The CBI has filed its reply before the High Court. The next hearing in this matter will be on September 2.

Ranjit Singh was the manager of Dera Sacha Sauda Sirsa. In this case, Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim is accused of plotting the murder and the CBI court proceedings are also completed. The CBI court was ready to pronounce its verdict on August 26 but the Punjab and Haryana High Court put a stay till August 27. The next hearing, in this case, is scheduled for September 2.

Why Punjab and Haryana High Court put a stay:

Ranjit Singh's son Jagseer Singh moved Punjab and Haryana High Court. He filed a petition to move the case to any other CBI court in Haryana, Punjab or Chandigarh. The petitioner had alleged that KP Singh, the public prosecutor for the CBI court at Panchkula has a fiduciary relationship with the presiding officer of the court. Following this, the Punjab and Haryana High Court on Tuesday put a stay on the CBI Court Panchkula from announcing their verdict on the case.

What is the murder case of Ranjit Singh:

Ranjit Singh, the manager of the Dera Sacha Sauda Sirsa, was killed on July 10 2003. In this murder case, the main witness is Khatta Singh, Gurmeet Ram Rahim's former driver. Khatta Singh revealed in 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. Khatta Singh added that Ranjit Singh had asked even his sister to write an anonymous letter about the ongoing sexual exploitation of women inmates. He added that Gurmeet Ram Rahim personally ordered to kill him on 16 June 2002 in his presence.

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.