'Have links with CMs, will get you suspended, Dera chief told DGP Prison'

Chandigarh: Journalist Sanjiv Mahajan on Monday said that self-styled godman Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh threatened the jail authorities of getting them suspended when the Director General of Police (DGP), Prison, refused his daughter to stay in the prison.

Mahajan had revealed that Dera Sach Sauda chief Singh's adopted daughter Honeypreet Insan was taken in a chopper with him to Rohtak's Sunaria jail on Friday. When the DGP refused Honeypreet to stay in the jail, Singh told the officer that he has connections with chief ministers and big politicians and will get him suspended.

"As soon as Baba was convicted of rape, an application was filed by his lawyers, saying that Baba has a back ache and suffers with migraine for which he be given a one-plus-one attendant. The CBI judge did not give any orders, citing it was outside his jurisdiction, and if Honeypreet willingly wants to stay with him, then the government or jail authority can give approval," Mahajan told ANI.

Mahajan said that Honeypreet accompanied Singh to the Rohtak jail, but after about two-and-a-half hours, she was taken away.

"She stayed there for two-and-a-half hours, after which the DG objected and she was taken away," he said.

"Sources say that Baba became furious for not allowing Honeypreet to stay with him, and threatened to make phone calls, but the police did not give him access to a phone, after which he threatened that he will talk to the chief ministers and other big politicians and get the jail authorities suspended," Mahajan said, informing that the police refused to budge from their stand in spite of the threat.

Speaking on the big convoy that Singh had brought on the day of hearing, Mahajan said that he had brought 700 to 800 vehicles with himself, which met with seven accidents in different locations along the way.

Meanwhile, about 73 vehicles had entered Panchkula, out of which only three were allowed to enter the court premises.

"Baba got his car inspected, but refused the inspection of his second car. To avoid any ruckus, the police complied, but later they recovered an AK-47, revolvers, and petrol in Baba's second car," disclosed Mahajan.