Dera Sacha Sauda head Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh and four others have been sentenced to life imprisonment in the murder of manager Ranjit Singh nearly two decades ago.A special CBI court in Panchkula on Monday imposed fine also. Ram Rahim will also pay a Rs 31 lakh fine. Abdil has been told to pay Rs1.5 lakh, Krishnan and Jasbir must pay Rs 1.25 lakh each and Avtar must pay Rs75,000. Fifty per cent of this amount will go to Ranjit Singh's family, the court said.
Ram Rahim, who has been lodged in Sunaria Jail in Rohtak district since his 2017 conviction for the rape of two followers, appeared through video-conferencing; the others were present in the court. Police had tightened security in Panchkula and Sirsa (where the sect is headquartered) in anticipation of possible violence after the court handed down its sentence. Apart from the 20-year sentence for the rape (handed down in 2017), Ram Rahim has also been given another life-term - this time for the murder of journalist Ram Chander Chhatrapati.
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