By – Aditi Gupta
On July 10, 2002, in the evening, Sirsa Dera’s manager, Ranjit Singh, was shot and killed. The CBI took charge for this case’s investigation in 2003. Following the probe, Dera chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim received a life sentence by the CBI.
Ram Rahim has been declared innocent in the much-discussed Ranjit Singh murder case by the Punjab and Haryana High Court, which is a major relief. Ram Rahim was deemed guilty in this case by the CBI court and handed a life sentence. According to Jatinder Khurana, Gurmeet Ram Rahim’s attorney, the Punjab and Haryana High Court reversed the ruling of the lower court and all five parties involved were deemed not guilty. We applaud this choice.
In the High Court, Ram Rahim had appealed the life sentence. The CBI court’s ruling was quashed by the High Court, which delivered a decision on his appeal on Tuesday. In this matter, a specific order is still waiting.
The Sirsa Dera’s manager was Ranjit Singh. A suspicion led to the murder of Ranjit Singh over 22 years ago. Rahul Singh lived in Kurukshetra, in the state of Haryana. He was fatally shot on July 10, 2002. The late Atal Bihari Vajpayee, the former prime minister, got a letter from an anonymous nun. The letter called for an inquiry against Ram Rahim. The management of Dera had concerns that Ranjit Singh had obtained the anonymous letter detailing his sister’s sexual exploitation of nuns. The identical anonymous letter was printed in the evening edition of “Poora Sach,” the newspaper published by Sirsa journalist Ramchandra Chhatrapati. As a result, on October 24, 2002, journalist Ramchandra Chhatrapati was shot and killed. On November 21, 2002, Ramchandra died away in Apollo Hospital, Delhi.
Dissatisfied with the police probe, Jagseer Singh, the son of Ranjit Singh, petitioned the High Court in January 2003, requesting a CBI investigation. The CBI will now be handling the case’s investigation after the High Court ruled in the son’s favor. During the span of the investigation, the CBI filed a complaint against Ram Rahim and five other individuals. The defendants had been convicted by the court in 2007. The Dera chief’s name was initially missing from this case, but on the basis of Khatta Singh, Ram Rahim’s driver,’s statement, the Dera chief’s name was added to the murder case in 2006, following the investigation’s transfer to the CBI in 2003.