Chandigarh: The Haryana Police on Friday arrested the driver of Honeypreet Kaur, the controversial adopted daughter of Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, the disgraced chief of the Dera Sacha Sauda sect. 

Pradeep Kumar, was arrested by a team of the Haryana Police from a location near the religious town of Salasar in Rajasthan, police sources here said on Friday. 

The sources said that the arrest could help the police to know the whereabouts of Honeypreet, whose real name is Priyanka Taneja and been absconding since August 25 evening. 

She had accompanied the disgraced godman till the CBI special court in Panchkula where he was convicted on 25 August on two counts of rape. A lookout notice has been issued against Honeypreet. 

Honeypreet, who is in her mid-30s and is considered closest to Ram Rahim, and has been his heroine in the five films that he has directed, produced and acted in, in the last three years. 

Though Ram Rahim and Honeypreet call themselves as the 'father-daughter' duo, her former husband had accused both of having an illicit relationship. 

Ram Rahim was sentenced to 20 years of rigorous imprisonment by the CBI court on 28 August. His conviction led to violence in Panchkula and Sirsa in Haryana, leaving 38 people dead and 264 injured. Isolated incidents of violence were also reported from Delhi and several other places in Punjab.