Honeypreet arrested, produced before court on Wednesday
Chandigarh, 4th Oct: Police arrested Honeypreet Insan, the adopted daughter of rape convict Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, on Tuesday from a highway in Punjab more than a month after she went into hiding. Her arrest came hours after she appeared on multiple television channels to deny police charges of instigating the Dera chief chief’s followers after he was sentenced to 20 years in jail. At least 41 people were killed in violence by his followers and subsequent police action. According to police, Honeypreet, whose real name is Priyanka Taneja, was arrested while travelling along with another woman in an SUV, from the Zirakpur-Patiala highway. Police did not identify the other woman. She will be produced in a local court on Wednesday. At least 12 police teams were deployed in and around Chandigarh since Monday after they were tipped off about her presence in the area.
Honeypreet was accused by her former husband of having a sexual relationship with her mentor Gurmeet, was last seen when she accompanied the Dera chief on a chopper to a Rohtak jail. Honeypreet, said to be in her thirties, parted ways with her Panchkula-based husband before settling at the Dera headquarters in Sirsa in 2009. Over the years, she became the most powerful person in the controversial organisation after Gurmeet Singh, who has lakhs of followers.
Aditya Insaan, the Dera spokesperson, is absconding. Honeypreet and Aditya have been charged with sedition, conspiracy to free Gurmeet and inciting violence after his sentencing. Another aide of Gurmeet, Surender Dhiman, was arrested earlier.
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