Tribune Web Desk
Chandigarh, May 22

A local court agreed to release Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, the head of the sect Dera Sacha Sauda who is currently undergoing a prison sentence for raping two followers, on parole on Friday after he said he wanted to look after his ailing mother. 

Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, who was sentenced to 20 years in prison in 2017 for raping two followers, had asked for emergency parole two days ago to meet and attend to his ailing mother.

He has been at Rohtak's Sunaria jail since the court sentence.