Dera Sacha Sauda chief files another plea for examining IO
PANCHKULA: Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh on Saturday moved another application to examine former CBI deputy superintendent of police (DSP) SS Sandhu, who was chief investigating officer (IO) in the rape case against him, as court witness.
CBI special judge, Haryana, Jagdeep Singh, issued notice to CBI on this application. There are two alleged rape victims in the case.
In his plea, Ram Rahim said he earlier wanted to examine inspector Sat Narain as he had recorded statements of two rape victims when the allegations surfaced.
But Sat Narain died in 2011 and the CBI also produced his death certificate. He told the court that as Sandhu was heading the investigations and Sat Narain was reporting to him, so he needed to be cross-examined on statements of the two alleged rape victims in police diary.
The dera chief, through his counsel SK Garg Narwana, submitted before the court that when Sandhu was examined initially, he was not aware of Sat Narain recording statements of the victims in the police diary.
Earlier, Ram Rahim had filed an application to examine another former CBI DSP KL Raina, who was once IO of the case, which was dismissed from the CBI court as well as the high court. But then he moved the apex court and got a favourable order. He told the CBI court on Saturday that it was during deposition of Raina that it came out that Sat Narain had also examined the alleged victims.