Dera Sacha Sauda Chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim on July 20 reached Dera Sacha Sauda Ashram in Barnawa, Baghpat after he got a 30-day parole. The Dera Sacha Sauda chief is serving a sentence for rape and murder in Rohtak's Sunaria Jail.Earlier in January 2023, he was out on parole for 40 days to attend an event and prior to that, he was out on parole for 40 days in October 2022. He has been incarcerated, since 2017, in Haryana's Sunaria jail where he is serving a 20-year term for raping two women disciples at his ashram's headquarters in Sirsa. While parole means the release of a prisoner either temporarily for a special purpose or completely before the expiry of a sentence, on the promise of good behaviour, a furlough is a short-term temporary release of convicts from jail. He was convicted by a special CBI court in Panchkula in August 2017 for raping two women followers.