{"id":308264,"date":"2019-01-17T13:48:13","date_gmt":"2019-01-17T13:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=308264"},"modified":"2019-01-17T13:48:13","modified_gmt":"2019-01-17T13:48:13","slug":"gurmeet-ram-rahim-awarded-life-imprisonment-in-journalist-murder-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/gurmeet-ram-rahim-awarded-life-imprisonment-in-journalist-murder-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Gurmeet Ram Rahim awarded life imprisonment in journalist murder case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-307980 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/gurmeet-300x179.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"565\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/gurmeet-300x179.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/gurmeet.jpg 546w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 565px) 100vw, 565px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A special court in Panchkula on Thursday awarded life imprisonment to Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim in the murder of journalist Ram Chander Chhatrapati.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The three others who were convicted along with Ram Rahim in the murder have also been given the life term.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The quantum of sentence was pronounced through video conference.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Security was heightened today in Panchkula as the CBI court decided the quantum of sentence for Dera chief.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The CBI court on Wednesday had accepted the Haryana government&#8217;s plea seeking appearance of the Dera Sacha Sauda sect head through video-conferencing during the pronouncement of quantum of sentence for the murder of journalist Ram Chander Chhatrapati<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">On January 11, Special CBI Court judge Jagdeep Singh had convicted Jailed self-styled godman Gurmeet Ram Rahim and three others Kuldeep Singh, Nirmal Singh and Krishan Lal-in the murder of journalist.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Journalist Ram Chander Chhatrapati was shot in October 2002 after his newspaper \u2018Poora Sach\u2019 published an anonymous letter narrating sexual exploitation of women by Gurmeet Ram Rahim at the Dera headquarters in Sirsa. The case was handed over to CBI in 2006.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A special court in Panchkula on Thursday awarded life imprisonment to Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim in the murder of journalist Ram Chander Chhatrapati. The three others who were convicted along with Ram Rahim in the murder have also been given the life term. The quantum of sentence was pronounced through video conference. 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