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Chandigarh, Oct 25 (PTI) A court in Punjab"s Faridkot on Monday ordered the production of Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim, serving a life term in a Rohtak jail in Haryana, before it on October 29.
The Faridkot court issued the production warrant against Ram Rahim on a plea by the Punjab Police Special Investigation Team, seeking his custodial interrogation in a 2015 sacrilege case, involving the thefts of a copy of Guru Granth Sahib.
Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh is currently lodged in Rohtak"s Sunaria jail since his conviction in 2017 for raping two disciples.
The SIT led by Inspector General SPS Parmar investigating the 2015 sacrilege cases, moved the court for the production warrant on Monday, said police sources.
The Dera Sacha Sauda chief had been named as an accused in FIR number 63 which pertains to the theft of a "bir" (copy) of the Guru Granth Sahib from Burj Jawahar Singh Wala gurdwara.
Three more Dera committee members -- Harsh Dhuri, Sandeep Bareta and Pardeep Kler – too had been booked in this case but they are absconding.