Lookout notice for Honeypreet, adopted daughter of Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh

Role in Dera chief’s escape bid under lens

September 02, 2017 12:09 am | Updated 12:09 am IST - CHANDIGARH

A file photo of Honeypreet Insan.

A file photo of Honeypreet Insan.

The Haryana police have issued a lookout notice for Honeypreet Insan, the adopted daughter of jailed Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh.

The police is probing her role in Singh’s alleged attempt to escape outside the Panchkula Court complex on August 25 after he was convicted in a rape case by a special Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court.

Panchkula Police Commissioner A.S. Chawla told reporters that lookout notices have been issued against Honeypreet and Aditya Insaan, a key Dera functionary.

Different versions

Police sources said some leads suggested that Honeypreet had gone into hiding soon after her father was sentenced; other reports said she was put up at the residence of a Dera follower in Sirsa.

Honeypreet Insan has a controversial past. The Dera chief arranged her marriage to Vishwas Gupta, a Dera follower from Sirsa, in 1999. Dera insiders claim that when Honeypreet complained to Singh that her in-laws were demanding dowry, he adopted her as his daughter in 2009 and made Vishwas his son-in-law, which gave his business a big boost.

But Gupta soon fell out with his father-in-law and, in 2011, approached the Punjab and Haryana High Court to seek custody of his wife from the Dera chief.

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