Dera head Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh is ‘Kaidi No 1997”

News, Punjab

Rohtak: The convicted Dera head Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh has been given the prisoner number -1997. This is to mention that the every convicted allotted a number in the jail.

Ram Rahim has been kept as a simple prisoner and there is no special facility for him. No helper has been kept with him.

Haryana Chief Secretary D.S. Dhesi denied that the convicted godman was being provided VIP treatment by the state and the police in prison.

The DGP and Chief Secretary, however, could not explain why a woman, said to be the sect chief's daughter, was allowed to board the helicopter used to transfer the godman to the prison after he was taken into custody.