Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, convicted of rape in connection with cases involving the Dera Sacha Sauda chief, is granted another parole and is released from prison for 21 days. Multiple outlets report that the release is his 17th since his conviction, and that he travels to the Dera Sacha Sauda headquarters in Sirsa during the parole period.
The reports describe the parole as following prison rules that allow convicts up to 10 weeks of parole annually, alongside additional leave/furlough entitlements. Scroll.in adds that with this release he exhausts an annual entitlement of 10 weeks of parole and three weeks of furlough. Some outlets also note the cumulative time he has spent outside prison, citing official parole records and estimating it as well over 400 days across his nearly decade-long sentence.
Outlets differ mainly in emphasis: some focus on the fact that this is the 17th parole release, others on the annual entitlement framework and how many days of leave he has used, and some on the overall duration spent out of custody.
