{"id":5165,"date":"2017-09-17T12:09:49","date_gmt":"2017-09-17T12:09:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/?p=5165"},"modified":"2017-09-17T12:09:49","modified_gmt":"2017-09-17T12:09:49","slug":"dera-driver-wants-to-depose-afresh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/dera-driver-wants-to-depose-afresh\/","title":{"rendered":"Dera driver wants to depose afresh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Panchkula<br \/>\nEven as rape convict Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh\u2019s former driver Khatta Singh today moved the special CBI court here seeking permission to depose afresh in the murder cases against him, the dera chief\u2019s lawyers impressed upon CBI Judge Jagdeep Singh to recuse himself from the two cases. He, however, turned down the plea.<\/p>\n<p>SK Garg Narwana, counsel for Ram Rahim, and Bankim K Kulshreshtha, counsel for the other accused, verbally requested that the murder cases be transferred as evidence in these cases was largely the same as in the two rape cases on which he (Judge) had already given his mind. Turning down the request, Jagdeep Singh retorted, \u201cI am not scared of anyone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The court issued a notice to the CBI and the defence on Khatta Singh\u2019s application for September 22.<\/p>\n<p>CBI counsel HPS Verma said the court ordered a day-to-day hearing of former dera manager Ranjit Singh\u2019s murder case in which five dera members are accused of having hatched a conspiracy to eliminate him at the dera chief\u2019s behest.<\/p>\n<p>Verma said the Judge decided to hear the murder case of journalist Ram Chander Chhatrapati separately.<\/p>\n<p>In this case too, Ram Rahim is one of the accused. While Ranjit Singh\u2019s murder case will be heard on a daily basis beginning September 18, Chhatrapati\u2019s case will be next heard on September 22.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Panchkula Even as rape convict Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh\u2019s former driver Khatta Singh today moved the special CBI court here seeking permission to depose afresh in the murder cases against him, the dera chief\u2019s lawyers impressed upon CBI Judge Jagdeep Singh to recuse himself from the two cases. He, however, turned [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5166,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[312],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5165"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5167,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5165\/revisions\/5167"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}