Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, the chief of Dera Sacha Sauda, has been granted a 40-day parole, sources told news agency PTI on Sunday. Singh is currently serving a 20-year jail term at Sunaria Jail in Rohtak, Haryana.
The latest parole comes months after he was previously granted a 40-day parole in August last year.
He was previously granted a 40-day parole in August last year, a 30-day parole in January, a 21-day furlough in April, and multiple other temporary releases around the Delhi assembly elections.
Singh and three others were also convicted in 2019 for the murder of a journalist more than 16 years ago. Since his conviction in 2017, he has been released from prison on 14 occasions. On most of these occasions, he stayed at the Dera’s ashram in Bagpat district, Uttar Pradesh.