Ram Rahim’s former prison guard posts win in first poll | India News – Times of India

CHANDIgarH: In a hotly contested race for the Charkhi Dadri assembly seat in Haryana, former jailer Suneel Sangwan – who came into limelight after heading Haryana’s high-security prison at Sunaria in Rohtak, where Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim was lodged in 2017 after his conviction in rape and murder cases – registered a victory in his very first election, reports Ajay Sura.
Ram Rahim was released on parole several times while Sangwan was Superintendent of Sunaria Prison. But on these occasions, parole was subject to the discretion of the state government, with no role for a prison inspector to play. The prison inspector can only grant emergency parole for a maximum of a few days.
Sangwan clarified during his campaign that he had rejected Dera chief’s plea for emergency parole on three occasions. He resigned from the post of prison inspector just before he was to file his nomination papers in September and joined the BJP, aiming to gain entry into the prison. Haryana politics. He even started his poll campaign by announcing his own manifesto to boost development in the state’s youngest district.
With two children in the Indian Army serving at the front – his son Captain Manav Sangwan stationed in Siachen and daughter Navya Sangwan in the northeast – Sangwan faced a tough election battle against the wife of an IRS officer, Manisha Sangwan.