{"id":43693,"date":"2016-07-01T10:41:25","date_gmt":"2016-07-01T05:11:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/?p=43693"},"modified":"2016-07-01T10:41:25","modified_gmt":"2016-07-01T05:11:25","slug":"sc-dismisses-plea-dera-sacha-sauda-chief-rape-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/sc-dismisses-plea-dera-sacha-sauda-chief-rape-case","title":{"rendered":"SC dismisses plea of Dera Sacha Sauda chief in rape case"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_37893\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-37893\" style=\"width: 259px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/06\/Rape.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"37893\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/youth-gets-5-yrs-jail-for-sexually-assaulting-minor\/rape-10\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/06\/Rape.jpg?fit=259%2C194&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"259,194\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Rape\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/06\/Rape.jpg?fit=259%2C194&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/06\/Rape.jpg?fit=259%2C194&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-37893 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/06\/Rape.jpg?resize=259%2C194&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"SC dismisses plea of Dera Sacha Sauda chief in rape case\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-37893\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">SC dismisses plea of Dera Sacha Sauda chief in rape case<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Supreme Court dismissed a plea of Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh seeking more handwriting samples of an alleged rape victim in a 14-year-old case, asking whether a woman is available, just because she writes &#8220;Babaji, I love you&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>A bench comprising Justices Dipak Misra and C Nagappan said the tenor and the language of the letter allegedly written by the victim does not show consent at any point.<\/p>\n<p>However, senior advocate Jayant Bhushan, appearing for the religious figure-head, said this letter was a crucial piece of evidence and is inconsistent with the allegation.<br \/>\nHe said CFSL Chandigarh has in its report said they needed more handwriting samples to arrive at any conclusion.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The alleged incident is of 1999 and the letter was written in 2001. FIR was lodged in 2002. More handwriting samples will help in my defence,&#8221; Bhushan said, adding that the case has been dragging on for over 14 years now.<\/p>\n<p>To this, the bench asked the counsel to read the content of letter and said whether it is rape or not can be proved through the evidence in the trial court.<\/p>\n<p>Bhushan after reading the content said the letter was anonymous and the complaint was lodged on that basis.<\/p>\n<p>The bench then asked, &#8220;just because the victim writes &#8216;Babaji I love you&#8217;, does that mean I am available?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Justice Misra said this reminded him of French writer Victor Hugo, whose &#8220;secretary for 49 years kept writing letters to him about her devotion and submission to him, but he never tried to seduce her.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The court, while dismissing the petition, said it was not inclined to intervene in the matter or say anything on it.<\/p>\n<p>The rape case is currently pending in a CBI special court at Panchkula. The woman who has alleged rape by the spiritual leader was an inmate of Ashram of Dera Sacha Sauda at Sirsa in Haryana.<\/p>\n<p>The plea of Dera Sacha Sauda chief for more handwriting samples of the alleged rape victim was dismissed by the trial court and High Court.<\/p>\n<p>( Source &#8211; PTI )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court dismissed a plea of Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh seeking more handwriting samples of an alleged rape victim in a 14-year-old case, asking whether a woman is available, just because she writes &#8220;Babaji, I love you&#8221;. A bench comprising Justices Dipak Misra and C Nagappan said the tenor and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38299,"featured_media":37893,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1954],"tags":[146,32748,31987,117,36998,19703,47726],"class_list":["post-43693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-high-profile-cases","tag-court","tag-criminal-news","tag-featured","tag-law","tag-plea-of-dera-sacha-sauda-chief","tag-rape-case","tag-supreme-court"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>SC dismisses plea of Dera Sacha Sauda chief in rape case - Legal News India - Supreme Court &amp; High Court Updates<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Supreme Court dismissed a plea of Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh seeking more handwriting samples of an alleged rape victim in a - Get the latest legal news from the Supreme Court, High Courts, and government. 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