Ram Rahim’s aide Honeypreet arrested from Punjab highway
PANCHKULA: Honeypreet Insan, the adopted daughter of rape convict Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, was arrested on Tuesday from a highway in Punjab, more than a month after she went into hiding.
Her arrest came hours after after she appeared on multiple television channels to deny police charges of instigating the Dera chief’s followers after he was sentenced to 20 years in jail. At least 41 people were killed in violence by his followers and subsequent police action.
Aditya Insan, the Dera spokesperson, is absconding. Both of them have been charged with sedition, conspiracy to free Gurmeet and inciting violence after his sentencing.
Another aide of Gurmeet, Surender Dhiman, was arrested earlier.
Police said Honeypreet, whose real name is Priyanka Taneja, was arrested along with another woman when they were travelling along the Zirakpur-patiala highway in an SUV.
Police did not identify the other woman.
She will be produced in a local court on Wednesday, Panchkula police commissioner AS Chawla told Hindustan Times, adding that she was being interrogated by a senior woman police officer.
Earlier there were reports of her fleeing to Nepal.
At least 12 police teams were deployed in and around Chandigarh since Monday after they were tipped off about her presence in the area, Chawla added.