On Honeypreet’s trail, police raid dera chief’s native village

Sushil Manav

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, September 21

A police team from Panchkula today conducted raids at several places at Gurusar Modia in Rajasthan in search of jailed Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh’s “adopted daughter” Honeypreet Insan.

Panchkula Commissioner of Police Arshinder Singh Chawla said though the police could not find Honeypreet there, they have got some vital clues from there.

“A police team led by ACP Mukesh Malhotra today raided a building of the dera, residences of the family members of Ram Rahim and a school and hostel set up by the dera at Gurusar Modia village in Sri Ganganagar district of Rajasthan. It was a joint operation with the Rajasthan Police,” Chawla told The Tribune.

He said the police had specific inputs that Honeypreet could be hiding there. “Family members of Ram Rahim fully cooperated with the police and they have given some important leads to the police. We will be working on those leads soon,” said Chawla.

Gurusar Modia is the native village of Ram Rahim where he had set up a dera, a hospital, a school, agriculture land and several other buildings.

A day after Ram Rahim was convicted by the Special CBI Court leading to violence in Panchkula and Sirsa, his family, including his mother, wife, son, daughter-in-law, two daughters and their husbands, had shifted to their ancestral house in Gurusar Modia.

Honeypreet, who lived with the dera chief at his residence “Terawas”, had accompanied him to Panchkula and then Rohtak’s Sunaria jail on August 25. She returned to the dera in the early hours of August 26 and is said to have left for some unknown destination the next day.

Honeypreet’s biological parents, who also lived in the dera, also left Sirsa soon after. Sources said they are not in hiding, but living with their relatives in Faridabad.

No coronation day function: Vipassana

Chandigarh: Dera Sacha Sauda chairperson Vipassana Insan on Thursday said there was no plan to appoint Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh’s son Jasmeet Singh as the caretaker of the sect. The jailed dera chief would continue to head the dera. In a video tweeted by her, Vipassana also clarified that the dera has no plan to hold any function this time on Ram Rahim's Gaddinashini Divas (coronation day) that falls on September 23. TNS