Dera Sacha Sauda sect head Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh was on Friday convicted for the murder of journalist Ram Chander Chhatrapati.
A CBI court in Panchkula on Friday convicted Ram Rahim Singh and three others for the murder of Chhatrapati, 16 years ago. The quantum of sentence for the four convicts will be pronounced by Judge Jagdeep Singh on January 17.
The same court had convicted the Sirsa-based dera chief on two counts of rape on August 25, 2017 and sentenced him to 20 years of rigorous imprisonment.
Sirsa-based journalist Chhatrapati was shot in October 2002 after a newspaper owned by him published an anonymous letter narrating how women were being sexually exploited by the sect head at the Dera headquarters.
The 51-year- old dera chief appeared before the CBI court through video conferencing from the Sunaria prison near Rohtak, where he is serving the 20-year sentence.
