JhoothaSauda.com – The Real face of Dera Sacha Sauda

NEW DELHI: Religious cult Dera Sacha Sauda, which has triggered sectarian strife across Punjab after an advertisement reportedly featured its chief Baba Gurmeet Singh as Guru Gobind Singh, is set to face the CBI’s heat on May 22 when the agency will argue before an Ambala court that the sect’s former office-bearers were involved in the murder of their fellow member when he tried to expose their misdeeds.
The matter relates to the murder of one of the 10 members of the cult’s Sirsa-based management committee, Ranjit Singh, who had spoken against Gurmeet Singh.
The CBI has filed a chargesheet against five disciples of the Baba, including Avtar Singh, the grandson of the previous head of Dera. Besides the Ranjit Singh murder case, the Dera is under the CBI’s scanner for two more cases, relating to the killing of Sirsa-based journalist Ram Chander Chatterpati and another pertaining to alleged sexual exploitation of sadhvis (women followers) by the Baba himself.
Chatterpati had extensively written about the alleged illegal activities of the Dera which has 36 branches in 11 states, including Punjab, Rajasthan, Gujarat, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh. Dera was also in focus recently for its reach when it reportedly extended support to the Congress in the Punjab Assembly polls.

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