Rs 1.25 crore paid by Honeypreet to ignite riot in Panchkula, Police Said

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Oct 07 2017 10:07 AM
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Rs 1.25 crore paid by Honeypreet to ignite riot in Panchkula, Police Said

PANCHKULA: Honeypreet Insan purportedly gave Rs 1.25 crore to Dera Sacha Sauda's Panchkula branch chief, Chamkaur Singh, a couple of days ahead of dera head Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh's certainty in rape cases on August 25. This was exposed to cops by Rakesh Kumar, personal assistant-cum-driver of Gurmeet, at some point in cross-examination.

Police officials accept as truh the money was used to pay followers to ignite a riot in Panchkula in the event of Gurmeet being offender of rape by the CBI court.

Rakesh Kumar is at present in the custody of the special investigation team (SIT) topped by ACP Mukesh Malhotra. As many as 36 people, all dera supporters, were killed in Panchkula after police opened fire to control the rioting.

Rakesh was under arrest on September 27. He had accompanied Gurmeet and Honeypreet to Panchkula on the day of the judgment. Later, on August 26, he also picked Honeypreet from Rohtak to Sirsa.

Panchkula commissioner of police A S Chawla inveterate that Rs 1.25 crore was handed over to Chamkaur but rebuff to share more details. "These are operation details and part of investigation," he said. Chawla also established that the broad planning of the violence on August 25 was done in the Dera headquarters in Sirsa ahead of the judgment in the rape case. Referring two other indicts Aditya Insan and Pawan Insan, Chawla told both were in the country and police teams were close to snitch them.

During cross-examination, it has also come to light that Sukhdeep Kaur, who was in detention with Honeypreet on October 3, and her husband Iqbal Singh, were part of the dera's center group. Sukhdeep was trained in driving and handling of arms in the dera place. Iqbal had taken her to Sunaria jail where Gurmeet is stuck. On the Dera chief’s instructions, Sukhdeep was attached with Honeypreet.