In June, Singh moved the high court and sought directions to grant him a 21-day furlough.On February 29, the high court directed the Haryana government not to grant further parole to the Dera Sacha Sauda chief without its permission.He had been granted a 50-day parole on January 19.Singh is serving a 20-year sentence for raping two of his disciples and is lodged in the Sunaria jail in Haryana’s Rohtak district.He was sentenced in 2017.The Dera chief and three others were also convicted in 2019 for the murder of a journalist more than 16 years ago.In May, the high court acquitted Singh and four others in the 2002 murder of the sect’s former manager Ranjit Singh, citing “tainted and sketchy” investigations in the matter.A special CBI court had sentenced them to life imprisonment in the nearly 20-year-old murder case.Singh had been held guilty of hatching a criminal conspiracy with his co-accused.
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