A controversy has arisen between the Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh and the Yotuber and Journalist Shyam Meera Singh. Earlier, Journalist, Shyam Meera Singh posted a video referring to Gurmeet Ram Rahim and now Ram Rahim is seeking legal help and actions against him.
In the recent turn of events, on Friday, 29 December 2023, The Delhi High Court issued a notice to Shyam Meera Singh to remove the video from his YouTube channel. On the Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh plea legal action has been taken by the Delhi High Court.
A single-judge bench of Justice Shalinder Kaur issued a notice against alleged Journalist Shyam Meera Singh and listed the matter for hearing on an emergent basis on Saturday, 30 December 2023. The Court even stated that the notice had been issued through email and WhatsApp.
What is Gurmeet Ram Rahim vs Shyam Meera Singh’s matter?
The Journalist and YouTuber, Shyam Meera Singh posted a video on 17 December 2023 on his YouTube channel with the title ” How Gurmeet Ram Rahim fooled his bhakts?”. Shyam Meera Singh captioned the video with a lengthy note which says that, In the video curious case of Gurmeet Ram Rahim is explored, and the shocking revelations surrounding him are made.
Shyam stated that we delve into the intriguing story of how Gurmeet Ram Rahim cunningly deceived his devoted followers and the video has uncovered the manipulative tactics employed by the spiritual leader that led his bhakts astray. The 30-minute long video went viral on the Internet and it has more than 300k views till now.
After the video went viral, spiritual leader Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh asked Shyam Meera Singh to delete the video but he didn’t. Then, recently, it was reported that Ram Rahim sought a plea from the High Court and they have filed a case against him and an emergent case hearing is held on 30 December.
After receiving the notice from the Court, Shyam Meera Singh took to his X and posted tweets where he asked the audience to spread the video before it got deleted from the case hearing on Saturday. He even mentioned in one of his tweets that Ram Rahim had earlier murdered, Journalist, Ram Chander Chhatrapati.
Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh controversies
Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh Insan who is also known as MSG, is a religious leader and the chief of the Indian social group, Dera Sacha Sauda. Apart from that, In 2017, Rahim was sentenced to jail for 20 years on the charge of raping two disciples. Last month, Ram Rahim was granted parole from the Haryana Government for 21 days.
Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh is also serving life imprisonment for his involvement in the murders of a journalist, Ram Chander Chhatrapati in 2002 and Ranjit Singh, who was a Dera manager. Ram Chander Chhatrapati was a journalist who wrote constant news against Ram Rahim and he also wrote the rape case news while other newspapers denied to write against Ram Rahim, he came forward and helped the women who were raped.
In October 2002, Ram Rahim’s people killed the Journalist, and years later in 2019, Rahim was arrested. Ram Rahim also planned the murder of one of his followers and the Dera Manager, Ranjit Singh. As per reports, Ranjit was shot by four assailants sent by Ram Rahim at his native place of Kurukshetra and the reason behind that is predicted that he stood against sexual abuse in the Ashram in Sirsa.