Dera Sacha Sauda: Punjab and Haryana excessive court docket acquits Dera chief Ram Rahim in journalist Ram Chander Chhatrapati homicide case | Chandigarh Information

CHANDIGARH: In a serious setback to the CBI, the Punjab and Haryana excessive court docket on Saturday acquitted Gurmeet Ram Rahim, the controversial head of Sirsa based mostly Dera Sacha Sauda, in reference to the journalist Ram Chander Chhatrapati homicide case. Division bench comprising Chief Justice Sheel Nagu and Justice Vikram Aggarwal handed these orders whereas permitting the attraction of Dera Chief. The bench, nevertheless, has upheld the conviction of three different accused on this case.The operative a part of the judgement was pronounced within the open court docket. Nonetheless, the detailed copy of the judgement was not obtainable until the submitting of this case.On January 17, 2019, the particular CBI court docket Panchkula had sentenced the self-styled godman and three others to life imprisonment and imposed a wonderful of Rs 50,000. They have been sentenced for the 2002 homicide of Sirsa-based journalist Ram Chander Chhatrapati, the editor of ‘Poora Sach’ newspaper.Aggrieved from the orders, the Dera Chief had challenged the conviction earlier than the HC claiming that he has been falsely implicated by the CBI on this case as the primary cost sheet in opposition to different accused, Nirmal, Kuldeep and Krishan Lal had already been filed and none of them had named the appellant to be concerned within the conspiracy, due to this fact there was no different circumstance left with the CBI to introduce the overhearing of conspiracy. “It’s a matter of indisputable fact that the appellant was under no circumstances named within the first cost sheet filed by State Police in 2002. Krishan Lal was tortured by the CBI Officers. The identify of the Dera chief was thereafter included as an accused by means of revenge. The eyewitness model of the conspiracy was created by senior CBI officer, M Narayanan for the current case within the type of Khatta Singh,” the counsel for Dera chief had submitted. It was additionally submitted that the model of Khatta Singh that the conspiracy was hatched solely in his presence and that he didn’t disclose about the identical to anybody stands falsified by the admission of IO, M Narayanan in his cross examination.Counsel additional said that the Dera chief has been convicted solely by stating that he had a motive in opposition to the deceased and he nursed a grudge in opposition to the deceased as he was publishing a night newspaper by the identify ‘Poora Sach’ and had been actively reporting in opposition to Dera. “The investigating company nevertheless, didn’t show by main even an iota of proof that the appellant ever learn the stated newspaper. As per the prosecution’s personal story, the newspaper being revealed by the deceased was a night newspaper and it solely reported the information which had already been revealed by the morning newspapers. There was thus, no query of the appellant, having any grudge in opposition to the deceased,” the dera chief had submitted. The CBI, in addition to the counsel representing the deceased journalist’s household had strongly opposed the Dera Chief’s plea. Lastly listening to all of the events, the HC in September final yr had reserved its verdict within the matter.The Dera chief is incarcerated in Rohtak’s Sunaria jail since August 2017 after he was sentenced to twenty years in jail for rapes of two feminine devotees.