{"id":322153,"date":"2024-05-14T18:15:35","date_gmt":"2024-05-14T12:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/?p=322153"},"modified":"2024-05-14T18:36:02","modified_gmt":"2024-05-14T13:06:02","slug":"sc-upholds-punjab-haryana-hc-order-quashing-fir-gurmeet-ram-rahim-insulting-speech-sant-kabir-da-guru-ravidas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2024\/05\/14\/sc-upholds-punjab-haryana-hc-order-quashing-fir-gurmeet-ram-rahim-insulting-speech-sant-kabir-da-guru-ravidas\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court upholds Punjab &amp; Haryana HC order quashing FIR against Gurmeet Ram Rahim for alleged insulting speech against Sant Kabir Das and Guru Ravidas"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;\">\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 3%;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Supreme Court:<\/span> In a special leave petition filed by State against the order passed by the Punjab &amp; Haryana High Court, quashing First Information Report against the Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh over his remarks made in a speech during a Satsang in 2016, the division bench of Sanjiv Khanna and Dipankar Datta, JJ. has refused to interfere with the impugned order, as the petition lacked substantial merit.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 3%;\">It was alleged that Gurmeet Ram Rahim had mentioned an incident involving Sant Kabir Das and Guru Ravidas, while discussing the relationship between a spiritual master and his disciples.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 3%;\">The High Court had said that on a comparison with various books and historical texts, it is evident that neither is there any <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">mens rea<\/span> on part of Gurmeet Ram Rahim nor any distortion or exaggeration of the incident pertaining to Sant Kabir Das and Guru Ravidas, to such an extent, that it could have offended their followers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 3%;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Source:<\/span> Press<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-style: italic;\">Gurmeet Ram Rahim is currently serving a jail sentence of 20 years, due to his conviction for the rape of two women.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67512,"featured_media":322157,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1188,2],"tags":[3067,63981,68676,68674,37829,68675,5363],"class_list":["post-322153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hot_off_the_press","category-news","tag-FIR","tag-gurmeet-ram-rahim","tag-guru-ravidas","tag-insulting-speech","tag-punjab-and-haryana-hc","tag-sant-kabir-das","tag-supreme-court"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.4 (Yoast SEO v26.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>SC upholds P&amp;H HC order quashing FIR against Gurmeet Ram Rahim for insulting speech against Sant Kabir Das and Guru Ravidas | SCC Times<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Supreme Court upheld Punjab &amp; 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