Punjab and Haryana HC rejects Ram Rahim’s parole plea filed by wife

Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, August 27  

Punjab and Haryana High Court on Tuesday refused to grant relief to Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh after his wife, Harjeet Kaur, filed a petition seeking his release on parole to look after his ailing mother. 

The Bench was of the opinion that Ram Rahim could himself file the plea. 

The plea came two years after Ram Rahim was sentenced to two 10-year terms in a rape case. His wife had sought a three-week parole for him to tend to his ailing mother on the grounds that the convict had earned “good conduct remission reports”.

Acting on her plea, the Punjab and Haryana High Court had earlier ordered a decision on his representation for parole within the timeframe fixed by instructions in this regard. But Kaur moved the court again after she did not receive a favourable decision.

In her petition, Kaur submitted that Ram Rahim had been sentenced to imprisonment for two terms of 10 years by a Panchkula special judge. He has also been sentenced to undergo life imprisonment in a murder case and was presently lodged in Sunariya jail in Rohtak district.

She added that his mother, Naseeb Kaur, 85, was suffering from a heart ailment and needed to undergo an angiography. The petition said the mother was “old and weak” and had expressed “desire that her only son” Gurmeet Ram Rahim be present to attend to her.

Kaur also submitted that her husband had earned the necessary good conduct remission reports for the parole as required under law.