PersonConvicted
Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh
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- Also known as
- Ram Rahim
- Role
- Dera Sacha Sauda chief
- Flagged for
- Serving a 20-year jail term, since 2017, for raping two of his disciples
- Status
- Acquitted by the Punjab and Haryana High Court on 7 March 2026 of the 2002 murder of journalist Ram Chander Chhatrapati, a conviction a special CBI court had handed down in January 2019; the same court acquitted him in May 2024 in the murder of Ranjit Singh
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- Punjab and Haryana High Court / Acquitted of the Chhatrapati murder, 7 March 2026 / Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh
- A division bench headed by Chief Justice Sheel Nagu acquitted him of murdering journalist Ram Chander Chhatrapati, saying the prosecution had not proved its case beyond reasonable doubt, and upheld the convictions of three others. The report says he has been serving a 20-year term since 2017 for raping two disciples, and that the same court acquitted him in May 2024 in the murder of the sect’s former manager Ranjit Singh.10 Mar 2026 · PTI (via Telangana Today) · HC clears Ram Rahim in murder case, says CBI acted under pressure