Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh was on Monday Aug 28,2017 sentenced to 10 years in prison for raping two of his women followers over a period of time
Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh got away with 10 years in jail after being convicted of raping two of his followers only because the new stringent law on minor’s rape did not apply to him.
Singh was charged under the Indian Penal Code since the offence was committed before the harsher Prevention of Children From Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act came into effect in February 2013. He was not tried under the new law, where the maximum sentence is life term, as it cannot be applied retrospectively.
The case against the Dera chief was filed in 2002 and he was booked under sections 375 and 376 of the IPC. The minimum punishment that could be awarded to Singh under these two sections was seven years and he got 10 in jail.
The CBI judge exercised his discretion to raise Singh's jail term to 10 years from an otherwise minimum of seven years.
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