Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh Castrated His Followers to Buy Land And Expand His Empire, Says CBI
Ram Rahim managed to get the signatures of castrated devotees without even informing them the need for signing it. It was done without the consent of the followers.
New Delhi, February 8: In a recent revelation by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), rape-convict godman Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh made use of his castrated followers to buy huge chunks of land in the name of his outfit Dera Sacha Sauda. According to a report by TOI, the Dera Chief, after forcing followers to get castrated, made them solely dependent on Dera. The cult outfit head misused the documents prepared in the names of his followers to purchase land. These shocking facts were revealed as part of the CBI chargesheet submitted before the special CBI court Panchkula.
The report further states that Ram Rahim managed to get the signatures of castrated devotees without even informing them the need for signing it. It was done without the consent of the followers. Threatened and scared, the followers did not even dare to inquire about the nature of paper to be signed by them. What is more shocking is that the castrated devotees never met the sellers of land, and it was the Dera representatives who made the payment
The Charge sheet reveals that Ram Rahim made his followers sign a general power of attorney (GPA)to purchase/gift land in the name of castrated devotees on behalf of Dera Sacha Sauda without their consent. It was reported that after land was bought in the name of castrated devotees, it was gifted back to the organisation.
The investigation by CBI reveals that most of the castrated devotees' general power of attorney to authorized Dera men were issued in 2000-01 while the land purchased in the name of castrated devotees was gifted back to the dera on the basis of GPAs executed by them post-2005. Reports state that the actual purchasers; which are the castrated devotees never met the sellers of land. The shocking revelations show that it was the dera representatives who made the payment.
To recall, the CBI earlier this month filed a charge sheet against Ram Rahim Singh and two doctors for allegedly forcibly castrating 400 Dera devotees. The self-styled holy man is serving a 20-year jail term after being convicted in two rape cases.
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