The Haryana police have booked the adopted daughter of convicted Dera Sacha Sauda chief, Honeypreet Insan, for her alleged role in inciting violence in Panchkula on August 25, after Gurmeet Singh was convicted on two counts of rape.
Lookout notice
The State police have already issued a lookout notice against Ms. Honeypreet and Dera spokesman Aditya Insan, who have been on the run since the violence.
The Panchkula police have added Ms. Honeypreet’s name to the already existing FIR number 345, in which names of other Dera functionaries including Aditya Insaan and Surinder Dhiman, have been registered for allegedly inciting violence.
Panchkula Police Commissioner A.S. Chawla on Tuesday said Ms. Honeypreet is an accused in the case now as her name has been added to the FIR.
“Some new evidence has come to the fore following which her name has been added,” he said.
Ms. Honeypreet has been booked under charges of criminal conspiracy for inciting violence in Panchkula.
Search teams
Meanwhile, Haryana Director General of Police B. S. Sandhu said Haryana police was in touch with the police of other States to track Ms. Honeypreet and Aditya Insan. “Several teams have been sent to different areas in search of the accused,” he said.
Responding to a query pertaining to reports that Ms. Honeypreet could be in Nepal, Mr. Sandhu said, “There was no concrete information on this. Police is in the process of verifying every bit of information.”
Ms. Honeypreet had on August 25 accompanied the Dera chief to the Sunaria jail in Rohtak by helicopter after his conviction in rape cases. Since then she has been missing.
‘No special facilities’
Separately, Haryana's Director General (Jails) K. P. Singh on Tuesday dismissed news reports about the special facilities being given to Gurmeet Singh as misleading and far from truth.
“Gurmeet Singh was being kept as a common prisoner, and his health was fine,” he said.
Mr. Singh said jail rules allowed two persons having blood relation to talk to a prisoner over the phone.
“The prisoner is allowed to talk after police verification of the phone numbers. Gurmeet gave two phone numbers, one of which belongs to Honeypreet, while the other is his own. Honeypreet’s number is not reachable and Gurmeet might have left his phone in the Dera. ,” he said.
