PTI
Chandigarh, March 9
Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh was booked on prices of hurting religious sentiments over his alleged objectionable feedback on Guru Ravidas and Saint Kabir, police mentioned on Thursday.
The Jalandhar Rural police registered a case below part 295 A (deliberate and malicious intention of outraging the religious emotions of any class) of the Indian Penal Code on a criticism by Jassi Talhan, chief of the Guru Ravidas Tiger Force, on the Patara police station, they mentioned.
The complainant alleged that the dera chief, whereas on parole just lately, made some objectionable feedback on Guru Ravidas and Saint Kabir on February 5 which had been shared via a YouTube channel.
A police official mentioned the FIR was lodged on March 7 and additional investigations had been underway.
The dera chief, at the moment serving a 20-year jail time period for raping two disciples, was granted a 40-day parole on January 20. He is lodged in Rohtak’s Sunaria jail in Haryana.
In 2021, the dera chief, together with 4 others, was additionally convicted of hatching a conspiracy to kill Ranjit Singh, a dera supervisor. The dera chief and three others had been additionally convicted in 2019 of the homicide of a journalist greater than 16 years in the past.
