The Second murder

All know about the murder of reporter of which cbi enquiry against this dera sacha sauda is going on here is another  murder file of a murder of person who was killed because dera thought his sister wrote anonymous letter

2 Dera Sacha Sauda followers arrested
Yoginder Gupta
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, December 3
Two more followers of the controversial Dera Sacha Sauda, Sirsa, have been arrested in a murder case, according to information received here today.

It may be recalled that earlier three followers of the dera were arrested for allegedly murdering a Sirsa-based journalist, Mr Ram Chander Chhatterpati, on October 24. Since then various organisations of journalists have been demanding a CBI inquiry into the affairs of the dera.

The latest arrests have been made in connection with the murder of Mr Ranjit, son of Mr Joginder, a former sarpanch of Khanpur Kolian village in Kurukshetra district. Ranjit was murdered on July 10 when several shots were fired upon him. Ranjit was among the top hierarchy of the dera before he quit the sect after an anonymous letter alleging sexual exploitation of women inmates of the dera started circulating. His sister, who was a student of an educational institution run by the dera at Sirsa, had quit her studies.

Informed sources say the dera suspected that the letter was written by Ranjit’s sister.

Later the Punjab and Haryana High Court ordered a CBI inquiry into the allegations levelled in the letter.

Immediately after the murder Joginder had suspected certain residents of his village for being responsible for the killing of his son. However, the police did not find any evidence against the suspects named by Joginder. Later he wrote a letter to the Haryana Chief Minister that he had come to know that his son was murdered by a follower of the dera, Jasbir, whose father was the president of the managing committee of an educational institution run by the dera at Sirsa. Jasbir was also doing some business in the dera complex.

The investigation of the murder case was transferred from the district police to the Crime Branch of the CID, Madhuban.

The sources say the Crime Branch arrested Jasbir and Sabdil, a Punjab police constable attached with the head of the dera as his gunman, in connection with the murder of Ranjit, whose father had also moved the Punjab and Haryana High Court seeking a CBI inquiry into the murder of his son. The next date of hearing of the case is in February next year.

The sources say the head of the dera has five gunmen — three of the Punjab police and two of the Haryana police.

The two accused were produced before the Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Kurukshetra, Mr Krishan Kumar, this afternoon. The prosecution sought the police remand of Jasbir, from whom, it said, certain things, including the vehicle and the weapon used in the murder, were to be recovered. The court remanded Jasbir in police custody till December 7.

However, constable Sabdil was remanded in judicial custody for 14 days after he demanded that his identification parade should be held.

The police allegedly recovered a Gypsy (HP-03-A 0857) along with Rs 1.65 lakh in cash from the suspects. A heavy police force was deployed in the court compex when the suspects were produced before the Magistrate.