Parole yet again for Ram Rahim

ALL convicts are equal in India, but some are more equal than others. Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh seems to be among the ‘more equal’ ones. The Sirsa dera head, who is serving a 20-year jail term for raping two of his disciples, has been granted a 40-day parole ahead of his birthday — which falls on Independence Day, no less. He got a 21-day furlough in April and a 30-day parole in January — thus, by the time Ram Rahim returns to Rohtak’s Sunaria jail in mid-September, he would have been out of prison for three months this year. He is also a convict in the Ram Chander Chhatrapati murder case and was sentenced to life imprisonment by a special CBI court in 2019; in the Ranjit Singh murder case, his acquittal has been challenged by the premier probe agency.