Hindustan Times (Amritsar)

Vipassana goes into hiding as cops get arrest warrant

- Vivek Gupta vivek.gupta@hindustant­imes.com

PANCHKULA: Sirsa-based dera sacha sauda chairperso­n Vipas-sana Insan is headed for trouble. Nearly two months after questionin­g her in connection with the violence that broke out in the city following the conviction of Der ahead G ur meet Ram Ra him in a rape case, the cops have got her arrest warrant issued from a local court after pleading sufficient evidence against her. Vi passana, meanwhile, has gone into hiding.

Sources in the police say that the police team searched for her in several places, including dera premises, in the past few days but she was not found. Searches are being conducted in different places, including her home town in Karnal.

Confirming the developmen­t, Panchkula police commission­er AS Chawla said that the special investigat­ing team (SIT) conducted raids twice after getting her arrest warrants issued from the court. But she has been missing.

“We will arrest her soon,” he said. Sources said that the police had taken the move after placing on record evidence stop rove that she was involved in the conspiracy to spread ar son in Pan ch ku la after dera chief’s conviction by local CB I court on August 25. She was also present inside court complex when the der a chief was convicted.

Honeypreet, the adopted daughter of jailed der a chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim, who is the prime accused in the arson case, had also handed over her mobile phone to Vi pass ana before going into hiding, two days after violence erupted in Panchkula.

She did not give satisfacto­ry response to the police when she was grilled here on October 14. “We had certain leads that she might be privy to the conspiracy inside the dera. Following our investigat­ion, we are now going for her arrest,” he said

She was also grilled by the Sirsa police earlier but the questionin­g then was limited to Honey p re et’ s whereabout­s and some incidents in the district.

Vipassana, who belongs to a Punjabi family, has been living in the dera for the last over 16 years.

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Vipassana Insan, dera chairperso­n

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