Sirsa-based Dera Sacha Sauda ruler Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh’s counsel on Monday told the Punjab and Haryana High Court that the Dera chief had relinquished the world and was not in a position to pay ₹30 lakh fine forced on him following conviction on two counts of rape of female supporters.
A Division Bench of Justices Surya Kant and Sudhir Mittal, while admitting the appeal filed by Ram Rahim, who is serving life in prison sentence, demanding his conviction by the special CBI court, issued a notice to the CBI.
Individually, the High Court also made a clean breast the appeal of the two victims who had wanted life imprisonment for Ram Rahim in the same case.
Ram Rahim’s lawyer S.K. Garg Narvana pleaded before the court that in the wake of all the Dera assets having been attached, his client was not in a position to pay the fine to the rape victims.
“The Dera head has abandoned the world,” he told the court.
The court, however, ordered Ram Rahim to deposit the compensation amount within two months in a bank.
The two rape survivors had moved the High Court on October 4 asking for an augment in the sentence to life imprisonment, their lawyer Navkiran Singh told reporters.
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