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MNA International Desk: Rape convict Dera Sacha Sauda (DSS) sect chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh will be sentenced on Monday at 2:30pm. at a special court near Rohtak town in Haryana.
The quantum of sentence will be done in a court being specially set up inside the District Jail premises in Sunaria near Rohtak, 70 km from Delhi, where Ram Rahim was brought and lodged after his conviction.
Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) special court judge Jagdeep Singh, who had on Friday held the Dera chief guilty of rape and criminal intimidation of the two female disciples in 2002, will be flown to Rohtak on Monday for announcing the sentence.
The sect chief has been convicted on two counts for rape, criminal intimidation and word, gesture or act intended to insult the modesty of a woman, reported news agency.
The minimum punishment for rape is seven years which may extend till life (term). The other sections have imprisonment for two and one years respectively.
