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Paving the best way for trial of Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh in three instances for alleged sacrilege of holy guide Shri Guru Granth Sahib, the Supreme Courtroom on Friday lifted the keep imposed by the Punjab and Haryana Excessive Courtroom.
The order got here from the bench of Justices BR Gavai and KV Viswanathan on an attraction by the Punjab authorities.
The court docket issued a discover to Ram Rahim, in search of his response inside 4 weeks, noting that the matter required scrutiny.
The alleged situations relationship again to 2015 have been initially investigated by the Central Bureau of Investigation, which then filed a closure report stating that no incriminating proof was discovered in opposition to followers of Dera Sacha Sauda.
However with the then ruling Congress and opposition Shiromani Akali Dal rejecting it, the state on September 6, 2018, withdrew the consent to switch the probe to CBI and transferred the probe to a Particular Investigation Group of the state police. The Particular Investigation Group named many Dera followers and workplace bearers and Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh as accused.
The Excessive Courtroom on March 11, 2024, stayed additional proceedings within the instances in opposition to Ram Rahim Singh because it referred Ram Rahim’;s petition which raised the query whether or not consent given by the State Authorities for a CBI probe will be withdrawn later, to a bigger bench.
Difficult this earlier than the SC, Punjab Advocate Common Gurminder Singh instructed the bench Friday that the September 6
notification had been upheld.
In 2023, the Supreme Courtroom had transferred the trial in opposition to Ram Rahim and 7 different accused within the instances to be from Punjab’s Faridkot to Chandigarh.
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