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  • Relief For Gurmeet Ram Rahim: High Court Overturns Life Sentence In Ranjit Singh Murder Case |

    Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim, aged 56, was cleared of charges in the Ranjit Singh murder case by the Punjab and Haryana High Court on Tuesday. Ranjit Singh, former manager of Dera, was murdered in 2002, following which a CBI court convicted Ram Rahim and four others with life imprisonment in 2021. Ram Raheem had challenged the CBI court’s order in the high court. 

    The Dera chief is currently jailed following rape charges of assaulting two sadhvis within the Dera and his links to the murder of journalist Ram Chander Prajapati, who had extensively covered the allegations of sexual misconduct against the controversial Ram Raheem. 

    Advocate Mahendra Joshi informed that the CBI court had awarded life imprisonment to Dera Chief and other accused. He added, “An appeal was filed against the verdict, and a hearing was done. The order was kept in reserve for the last month. The high court accepted all five appeals and set aside the verdict of the Panchkula CBI Court. The high court has acquitted,” reported PTI. 

    VIDEO | Punjab and Haryana High Court acquits Dera Sacha Sauda chief #GurmeetRamRahim Singh in the Ranjit Singh murder case.

    “The Panchkula CBI Court had awarded life imprisonment to Dera chief and other accused. An appeal was filed against the verdict and hearing was done. The… pic.twitter.com/Mepabb0Zb8
    — Press Trust of India (@PTI_News) May 28, 2024

    The Dera Sacha Sauda is based in Sirsa, Haryana. The organisation became known after sexual assault claims were made against its chief, leading to a CBI investigation.

  • Prime Court docket problems realize to Punjab on liquor coverage

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    CHANDIGARH: The Punjab and Haryana Prime Court docket has on Tuesday issued realize to the federal government of Punjab asking it to give an explanation for why its new liquor coverage will have to no longer be stayed following lawsuits of illegality.

    The Aam Aadmi Birthday celebration executive in Punjab had introduced in a brand new excise coverage for the 12 months 2022-23 on June 8, 2022. A petition filed within the prime courtroom through M/s Akash Enterprises and M/s Vijay Sharma and Harjinder Singh and others stated that “as in keeping with the excise coverage for the 12 months 2022-23, the wine contractors retaining L-2 retail vends are prohibited to take part within the allotment process of L-1 wholesale vend and the similar is totally unlawful, arbitrary, and extremely vires being in stark distinction with the provisions of Punjab Excise Act, 1914, and Punjab Liquor License Laws, 1956…”

    The petitioners stated that “L-1 (wholesale) liquor license holder could also be working the L-2 (retail) vend, and now as in keeping with the stipulations imposed through the respondents, no L-2 (retail) license holder can get L-1 (wholesale) vend simply in an effort to create the monopoly of the close to and costly some of the Delhi Prime command.”

    The petitioners have alleged within the petition that the coverage was once made to favour some people who find themselves “…close to and costly to the top of the celebration in Delhi as all of the conferences for L-1 is performed in Delhi (and) the coverage could also be framed in Delhi.”

    The petitioners have alleged that the brand new excise coverage was once drafted in akin to means that it favoured a couple of and would finally end up making a monopoly within the liquor industry. They stated that the utmost collection of retail vends which may be allocated to an entity was once higher to 5 from 3, which “furthers the intent of monopolizing the liquor trade into the arms of a couple of resourceful bidders”.

    The prime courtroom bench of Justice Mahabir Singh Sindhu and Justice Vikas Suri have requested the state executive to ship its reaction to the fees in petition through July 8.

    That the Punjab excise coverage was once made in Delhi is a rate additionally made through BJP chief Manjinder Singh Sirsa in his grievance to the CBI. In his grievance, Sirsa has accused Delhi leader minister Manish Sisodia of retaining a gathering at his Delhi place of dwelling on 30.05.22 with Punjab excise and taxation officers to draft a an identical coverage for Punjab.

    Sirsa stated the assembly at Sisodia’s place of dwelling was once attended through Varun Runjan, excise and taxation commissioner, Punjab, Kap Sinha, monetary commissioner, taxation, Punjab, Naresh Dubey, Vijay Nair, AAP Member of Parliament Raghav Chadha and Punjab excise minister Harpal Cheema. Sisodia didn’t reply to an in depth questionnaire despatched to him through this newspaper on June 14. The Delhi executive spokesperson, on the other hand, rejected Sirsa’s fees as baseless and politically motivated.