INDIA: Guru jailed for life over journalist’s murder

An Indian guru has been sentenced to life in prison for murdering a journalist who exposed sexual abuse of women at his sect. Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, the 51-year-old Dera Sacha Sauda leader, is already serving a 20-year prison sentence for raping two female followers. Newspaper editor Ram Chander Chhatrapati was killed after revealing the […]

An Indian guru has been sentenced to life in prison for murdering a journalist who exposed sexual abuse of women at his sect.

Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, the 51-year-old Dera Sacha Sauda leader, is already serving a 20-year prison sentence for raping two female followers.

Newspaper editor Ram Chander Chhatrapati was killed after revealing the cases at Dera’s headquarters in the north-western city of Sirsa.

Three other men were also sentenced. The self-styled holy man appeared at the court in Panchkula in Haryana state through a video link from prison.