Honeypreet Insan granted bail in Panchkula violence case

A court on
Wednesday granted bail to Honeypreet Insan, adopted daughter of Dera Sacha
Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim, in a case concrn to violence in Haryana’s
Panchkula in 2017.

Honeypreet
had moved her plea on Wednesday morning, four days after a court dropped
sedition charges against her and 39 others. Dera spokesperson Aditya Insan and
other core committee members were also involved for the violence.

Forty-one
people have been arrested by the police and 5, including Aditya Insan, were
declared offenders by a court last year.

According to
a chargesheet filed by the police, Honeypreet and the 45-member Dera management
committee made a plan to unleash violence if Gurmeet Ram Rahim was convicted in
the rape case.

The
conspiracy was formulated at the Dera headquarters in Sirsa at a meeting on
August 17, 2017, the police said.

The
prosecution said that Gurmeet Ram Rahim, Aditya Insan, Honeypreet attended the
meeting. It had argued that it was decided in the meeting that Dera followers
carrying sticks, umbrellas, petrol and chili powder should gather in Panchkula
by August 25, 2017 and go on the rampage if Gurmeet Ram Rahim was held guilty
and arrested.

When the
court had dropped the sedition charges, Honeypreet’s counsel Dhruv Gupta said ,it
was a good ground to apply for bail.

Honeypreet has been in judicial custody at the Ambala central jail since October 2017. The August 2017 violence by Dera followers after a CBI court convicted the Gurmeet Ram Rahim led to the deaths of 42 people. Around 200 criminal cases were registered against Dera followers and over 1,000 of them were arrested.