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The Supreme Court has paved way for the trial in the 2015 sacrilege cases of Punjab against Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim.
A bench of Justices BR Gavai and KV Vishwanathan lifted the stay imposed by the Punjab and Haryana high court on the trial and directed Ram Rahim to file his response.
The top court passed the order on a plea of the Punjab government challenging the order of the high court.
During the hearing, Advocate General of Punjab Gurminder Singh sought a stay on the high court order which had stayed the trial in the three cases registered at Bajakhana Police Station at Faridkot in Punjab.
According to PTI, Noting the matter required scrutiny, the apex court issued a notice to Ram Rahim and sought his response within four weeks.
In February, 2023, the top court had transferred the trial against him and his followers in these cases from a court in Faridkot to Chandigarh.
Ram Rahim had previously moved the Punjab and Haryana high court challenging the validity of a September 6, 2018 notification of the state government withdrawing the consent given to the Central Bureau of Investigation to probe these cases and sought a direction to the central probe agency to investigate.
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