Panchkula (Haryana): A Panchkula court today
extended the judicial custody of Honeypreet Insan till
November 6 in a case related to the violence that followed the
Dera Sacha Sauda sect chief's rape conviction on August 25,
which left 41 people dead and scores injured.
Honeypreet Insan, who calls herself the adopted daughter
of Dera chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, and Sukhdeep Kaur were
presented before the court of Chief Judicial Magistrate Rohit
Watts through video-conferencing from the Ambala central jail,
defence counsel S K Garg Narwana said.
"Both Honeypreet Insan and Sukhdeep Kaur have been
further remanded in judicial custody till November 6," he
said.
Priyanka Taneja (36), alias Honeypreet Insan, and
Sukhdeep Kaur were arrested from Zirakpur-Patiala road in
Punjab on October 3.
On October 4, the court had sent them to six-day police
custody and after completion of their police remand, they were
further remanded in police custody for another three days
which ended on October 3.
After their police remand ended, the duo were sent to
judicial custody till October 23.
Honeypreet Insan topped a list of 43 people "wanted" by
the state police in connection with the violence post the Dera
chief's conviction.
Haryana Police had on September 1 issued a look-out
notice against Honeypreet Insan and another key aide of the
Dera chief, Aditya Insan, following apprehensions that they
might try to "escape from the country".
An arrest warrant was also issued against Honeypreet
Insan, and two key Dera functionaries Aditya Insan and Pawan
Insan, after Haryana Police moved an application in the
Panchkula court.
Her name was also included in an FIR in which Dera
functionaries Aditya Insan and Surinder Dhiman, among others,
had been booked on the charge of sedition, inciting violence
and arson, the police had said earlier.
Following the conviction of the Dera chief, violence
had erupted in Panchkula and Sirsa, the Dera headquarters,
which claimed 41 lives and left scores of people injured.
The Dera chief has been sentenced to 20 years in jail for
raping two women and is now lodged in jail.
