A Faridkot court docket on Friday granted bail to jailed Sirsa-based Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim in two 2015 sacrilege circumstances whereby derogatory posters had been put up at Bargari and torn pages of a ‘bir’ had been discovered scattered close to a gurdwara.

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With this, Ram Rahim has secured bail in all three politically delicate circumstances linked with the 2015 Bargari sacrilege incidents, which had triggered an enormous protest in Punjab, ensuing within the killing of two Sikh protesters in police firing.

The dera head is lodged in Sunaria jail in Haryana’s Rohtak city since August 25, 2017, after he was awarded a 20-year jail time period for the rape of two followers.

The Punjab Police particular investigation workforce (SIT), probing the 2015 sacrilege incidents, had named Ram Rahim as the principle conspirator within the Bargari sacrilege and derogatory posters case.

In March, the SIT filed chargesheets towards the dera head in each circumstances. After manufacturing warrants had been issued, Ram Rahim appeared earlier than the trial court docket at Faridkot for the primary time in reference to 2015 sacrilege circumstances by way of video-conference on May 4.

During his look, Ram Rahim’s counsel moved three purposes looking for bail in FIR 63 (registered after a ‘bir’ was stolen from Burj Jawahar Singh Wala village on June 2, 2015), FIR 117 (registered after derogatory posters had been put up at Bargari on September 24, 2015) and FIR 128 (registered after torn pages of a ‘bir’ had been discovered scattered close to Bargari gurdwara on October 12, 2015) on the Bajakhana police station.

The court docket had granted bail to Ram Rahim within the ‘bir’ theft case the identical day.

The court docket of Faridkot chief judicial Justice of the Peace (CJM) Monika Lamba stated within the order that the accused is granted the concession of bail, topic to furnishing bail bonds of 50,000 with one surety within the like quantity in every case individually. After the bail bonds had been furnished, the court docket issued the issued warrants.

In July 2020, Ram Rahim was named an accused within the ‘bir’ theft case and a supplementary chargesheet was filed towards him weeks earlier than the meeting elections on January 27.

Later, the SIT named the dera head as the principle accused within the derogatory posters and Bargari sacrilege circumstances on February 27 and supplementary chargesheets had been filed in each circumstances on March 7.

Recently, through the listening to on the dera head’s plea looking for exemption from personnel look, the excessive court docket had ordered the trial court docket to proceed the trial towards Ram Rahim in three sacrilege circumstances by means of video-conference. Now, the dera head will seem once more earlier than the trial court docket by means of video conferencing on May 16.