Former dera ‘sadhu’ wants case of missing castrated associate reopened

Sushil Manav

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, September 25

Gurdas Singh Toor, a former ‘sadhu’ of Dera Sacha Sauda, who was allegedly harassed by Sirsa police for more than two years in a case of disappearance of another former ‘sadhu’, Jatinder alias Gora, in 2012 before he was found innocent, wants the case to be reopened so that truth could come out.

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Toor today alleged that Gora was killed at the instance of the dera chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh and his body disposed of because he had threatened to expose the dera chief after he was castrated in the dera.

He said his petition for a CBI probe into the case at that time had been rejected because the dera chief had won over Gora’s brothers, also ‘sadhus’ in the dera, but now that Ram Rahim has been jailed the police should revisit the case.

Gora, who was among over 300 ‘sadhus’ to have been allegedly castrated on Ram Rahim’s orders had left the dera in rage, as he wanted to get treatment that could restore his manhood.

“I was saved from being castrated because I left the dera a few days before castrations took place as I had come to know about illegal activities in the dera. Gora who wanted to expose Ram Rahim contacted me and two of us started preparing a list of those castrated. We prepared a list of 300 sadhus, including Haakiki Hans Raj whose FIR is presently being investigated by the CBI,” Toor said.

He said on July 4, 2012, when he was sitting at Gora’s photostat shop in Sirsa, dera chief’s confidants, identified as Santosh and Phul came and threatened him and Gora to stop doing propaganda against the dera.

They also asked Gora to come to the dera for seeking pardon.

Few days later, Gora went missing on July 9 and Toor was booked for his disappearance on the complaint filed by the victim’s family.

Toor’s plea for a CBI probe was rejected by the Punjab and Haryana High Court on the plea that he was an accused in the case and the victim’s family was not demanding it.

“When I was asked to undergo lie-detector test, I put the precondition that Haryana, Punjab or Rajasthan police, who were allegedly under Ram Rahim’s influence, should not conduct the test. Finally, the CBI was asked to conduct the test and the case against me was closed in March 2014,” he said.

Toor added that though he was declared innocent by the police after two years of harassment, no effort has been made to find out what happened to Gora. He demanded that the case be reopened to bring the guilty to book.

In a case of FIR into the castration of ‘sadhus’ filed on the complaint of Hans, the CBI is to submit its 11th status report to the court on October 25.