The Punjab and Haryana High Court on Saturday acquitted Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh in the 2002 murder case of journalist Ram Chander Chhatrapati. The decision comes more than seven years after a special CBI court had convicted the Sirsa-based Dera Sacha Sauda and sentenced him to life imprisonment. According to Ram Rahim’s lawyer, Jitender Khurana, the High Court overturned the earlier conviction and cleared him of the charges related to the journalist’s killing.
