Gurmeet Ram Rahim pronounced guilty in journalist's murder case

Gurmeet Ram Rahim will appear through video conferencing for the hearing in journalist Ramchandra Chhatrapati's murder case

BS Web Team | New Delhi January 11, 2019 Last Updated at 10:47 IST

Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim being taken in a helicopter from Panchkula to Rohtak town to be lodged in a jail after he was convicted PTI file photo

Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim. PTI: File photo

A special CBI court on Friday pronounced jailed Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh guilty in journalist Ramchandra Chhatrapati's murder case. The 51-year-old sect head is currently serving a 20-year prison term in Rohtak's Sunaria jail for raping two of his women followers. Journalist death case Ramchandra Chhatrapati was shot at in October 2002 after his newspaper, 'Poora Sach', published an anonymous letter narrating how women were being sexually exploited by Gurmeet Ram Rahim at the Dera headquarters in Sirsa. The journalist later ...