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Gurmeet Ram Rahim sentenced to 20 years in jail: 10 crucial developments

CBI court judge has reached Rohtak to pronounce sentencing

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Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh in a helicopter in which he was flown from to Rohtak to be lodged in the district jail on Friday Photo: PTI

BS Web Team New Delhi
Rape convict Dera Sacha Sauda head Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh was On Monday sentenced to 20 years imprisonment — 10 years for each rape conviction. The self-styled godman was convicted by a special CBI court on Friday, which led to large-scale violence by his followers in parts of Haryana, Punjab and Delhi, resulting in the deaths of 38 people. Ram Rahim is lodged in a Rohtak district jail. Here are the latest developments:

1. No mercy for rapist Gurmeet Ram Rahim: Prosecution had demanded the maximum punishment for Singh, convicted on August 25 by a CBI court in a rape