NEW DELHI: Haryana police have issued a “lookout notice” for Honeypreet Singh, who is charged with sedition, or instigating violence, and conspiracy in attempting to free Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh after his rape conviction. Airports, buse stations, and railway stations across the country are on alert. Haryana Deputy Commissioner of Police Manbir Singh said Gurmeet's adopted daughter, Honeypreet conspired to free him from the security detail that was given custody of the self-styled godman.
Aditya Insan, mouthpiece of Dera Sacha Sauda, who is on the run is also charged with inciting violence after the verdict. A similar 'lookout notice” has been issued for him. He is the main accused in the sedition case registered for inciting Ram Rahim followers to extreme violence following the conviction verdict. Police sources said both of them knew what the cult leader's followers would do if he were pronounced guilty. As many as 38 people died and millions worth of public property was destroyed last week.
Haryana government is, meanwhile, looking into how Honeypreet was allowed to board the chopper that took Gurmeet out of the Panchkula court complex following the end of the case. Photographs taken in the court complex showed her sitting beside him in the chopper.
Speculation over who will succeed the cult chief who has been jailed for 20 years, is the focus in the organisation's Sirsa headquarters. When rape charges were frames against him in 2007, his son Jasmeet Singh was named as his successor. However, founded by Shah Mastana Balochistani in 1948, the dera has never seen succession in a bloodline.
