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Murder cases aginat Ram Rahim : Witness, who retracted on statement wants to record fresh one

Murder cases aginat Ram Rahim : Witness, who retracted on statement wants to record fresh one

| @indiablooms | 16 Sep 2017, 12:53 pm
Panchkula, Sep 16 (IBNS): A former driver of Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, who had earlier retracted on his statement, approached a special CBI court as hearing in two separate murder cases against the convicted Dera Sacha Sauda chief began on Saturday, media reports said.

The CBI has fixed the next date of hearing on his application for September 22.

Khatta  Singh, a witness in the murder cases filed against Ram Rahim, had earlier retracted his statement.

According to reports, Ram Rahim appeared in the Panchkula court of CBI judge Jagdeep Singh on Saturday via video-conferencing. 

The 'God man' is now lodged at Sunaria jail in Rohtak after being sentenced to 20 years imprisonment for raping two of his female followers

The two cases are related to the murders of Sirsa-based journalist Ram Chander Chhatrapati and former Dera manager Ranjit Singh allegedly by Dera followers.

Chhatrapati from Sirsa was shot at in October 2002 after a newspaper owned by him, ‘Poora Sach’, published an anonymous letter narrating how women were allegedly being sexually exploited by the sect head at the Dera headquarters. The journalist died later.

The second case relates to the murder of former Dera manager Ranjit Singh who was allegedly shot dead in 2002. According to the prosecution, he was murdered for his suspected role in circulating the anonymous letter which made the sexual exploitation allegations. In February 2011, Singh had told the court that Ram Rahim had not ordered to kill anyone and had no role to play in the murder of Ranjit Singh in July 2002.

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