Honeypreet Insan, adopted daughter of jailed Dera Sacha Sauda chief tops the list of 43 persons ‘wanted’ by the Haryana Police in connection with incidents of violence that followed Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh’s conviction in a rape case last month.
Another top aide of Ram Rahim named in the list is the absconding Dera spokesman Aditya Insan. Earlier, a lookout notice was issued by Haryana Police against Honeypreet Insan and Aditya Insan.
The photos of 43 persons on the ‘wanted’ list have been posted on the official web portal of Haryana Police on Monday. These 43 people are suspects responsible for instigating or indulging in the large-scale violence after Ram Rahim’s conviction by the special CBI court in Panchkula on August 25.
Honeypreet is the only woman in the ‘wanted’ list. Most of the other accused are youth and some of them can be seen carrying ‘lathis’ in their hands.
Earlier, Haryana police had requested the general public and media to send videos or photographs of the violence that rocked Panchkula on August 25. The photographs have mostly been obtained from video footage of TV news channels and police videos and CCTV cameras installed at various places in Panchkula.
Police said they had received several photos and videos so far, out of which 43 persons were identified and their photos are uploaded in connection with the incidents of violence in Panchkula, which left 35 dead. Six persons also died in incidents of violence in Sirsa.
Ram Rahim’s conviction for rape had led to violence in Panchkula town, adjoining Chandigarh on August 25.
The 50-year-old Dera chief, who is lodged in the Sunaria Jail in Rohtak, had been sentenced to 20 years of imprisonment by the CBI court for the 2002 rapes of two of his disciples.
Honeypreet, whose real name is Priyanka Taneja, has been absconding since August 25 evening. She had accompanied the disgraced godman from Sirsa till the CBI special court in Panchkula where he was convicted on two counts of rape.
later, she even accompanied Ram Rahim in a helicopter from Panchkula to Rohtak after he was convicted in the rape cases and was being shifted to the prison near Rohtak.
Haryana Police has booked Honeypreet for sedition and being involved in an alleged conspiracy to help Ram Rahim escape after his conviction. The State Police had earlier sent a team to lakhimpur Kheri in Uttar Pradesh bordering Nepal in search of Honeypreet.
The police had also issued a lookout notice against Aditya Insan, a former eye specialist from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) and Dera spokesman for many years. He was last seen in Panchkula just minutes before the violence broke out.
Meanwhile, Dera Sacha Sauda chairperson Vipassana Insan was on Monday questioned by a Special Investigating Team (SIT) in Sirsa. She was quizzed by the police about the people behind the violence in Sirsa and Panchkula on August 25 following dera chief conviction.
Haryana Police has so far made several arrests after violence broke out in Panchkula that includes Dera Sacha Sauda chief’s top aide and spokesperson Dilawar Insan, who was arrested from Sonepat, on September 15. Pradeep Goyal Insan, a Dera functionary, was arrested a day before from Udaipur in Rajasthan by SIT of Haryana Police.