Honeypreet will be produced in court on Wednesday : Haryana Police
The Haryana Police had on September 1 issued a lookout notice against Honeypreet Insan and another key aide Aditya Insan following apprehensions that they might try to “escape from the country”.
The Haryana Police had sounded an international alert against all three. Honeypreet, in her mid-30s, is on the run since August 25, hours after Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh was convicted. She has been the closest aide of Ram Rahim since 2009. The police is on her trail for nearly a month and raids have been conducted in Nepal, Rajasthan, Bihar and Haryana.
The Haryana Police had put her on its list of 43 most wanted people after the Dera supporters went on a rampage on August 25 following Ram Rahim’s conviction by a CBI court in a rape case. He was given 20-year jail two days later. The spiralling violence, which gripped several cities and towns in Punjab and Haryana after the conviction, left 41 people dead and scores of others injured, prompting the administration to issue non-bailable arrest warrants against several people, including Honeypreet, for inciting the mob.
Haryana Police have finally taken custody of Honeypreet Insan, Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh’s adopted daughter on Tuesday, after a month-long chase. Honeypreet, in her mid-30s, was on the run since August 25, hours after Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh was convicted in two rape cases.
Haryana Police DGP B S Sandhu has confirmed that Priyanka Taneja alias Honeypreet was arrested from Zirakpur-Patiala road in Punjab. “We have arrested her,” the DGP said. Honeypreet tops the list of 43 people ‘wanted’ by the Haryana Police in connection with the incidents of violence that left 41 people dead and several injured following Gurmeet Ram Rahim’s conviction in rape case.
Haryana Police said Honeypreet was taken into custody on the Zirakpur-Patiala road. Haryana Police insisted that Punjab Police played no role in the arrest. She was booked by the Haryana Police on charges of sedition, inciting violence and being involved in the conspiracy to help the Dera chief escape after his conviction by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court on August 25 on two counts of raping female disciples in 1999.
Earlier, Honeypreet had filed an anticipatory bail plea in the Delhi High Court which was rejected. In the bail plea, Honeypreet has claimed that “my father Ram Rahim has been falsely implicated”. The plea also alleged that Honeypreet was facing threat to life from drug mafias in Punjab and Haryana.
In an interview to News24, Honeypreet questioned why people are tarnishing a father-daughter relationship. “Why are they flinging such malicious charges. Can’t a father love his daughter, can’t a father touch his daughter lovingly?” she said. Honeypreet was arrested hours after news channels aired an interview where she refuted the allegations about her relationship with her adopted father Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, saying that they were baseless.
“Honeypreet slept in Ram Rahim’s bed and had sex with him too. I saw her naked with Baba,” Vishwas Gupta said, adding that Ram Rahim would ask him to stay out of his room while she was inside with him and warned him to not tell anyone about it. Honeypreet Insan’s former husband Vishwas Gupta levelled scandalous allegations against jailed rapist godman Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh and his adopted daughter Honeypreet. Addressing a press conference, he said he had caught Ram Rahim having sex with Honeypreet. He claimed his ex-wife used to sleep in the “gufa” at the Dera Sacha Sauda headquarters in Sirsa. (With Agency Inputs ).
