
As rape convict Dera Sacha Sauda (DSS) sect chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh will be sentenced on Monday, the security arrangements have been beefed up with Rohtak jail turning into a virtual fortress and District Jail at Sunaria being the epicenter.
An uneasy calm prevailed in Punjab and Haryana on Monday after arson and riots by Dera supporters leading to at least 36 deaths and over 300 injured following the verdict that pronounced the controversial ‘godman’ guilty of raping and sexually exploiting two female disciples.
The quantum of sentence will be done in a court being specially set up inside the District Jail premises in Sunaria near Rohtak, 70 km from Delhi, where Ram Rahim was brought and lodged after his conviction.
Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) special court judge Jagdeep Singh, who had on Friday held the Dera chief guilty of rape and criminal intimidation of the two female disciples in 2002, will be flown to Rohtak on Monday for announcing the sentence.
The sect chief has been convicted of two counts of rape (Section 376 IPC), criminal intimidation (Section 506 IPC) and Section 509 (word, gesture or act intended to insult the modesty of a woman).
The minimum punishment for rape is seven years which may extend to life (term). The other sections have imprisonment for two and one years respectively.
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