2017 Ram Rahim Riots PIL Revived: Punjab HC’s CJ Sheel Nagu Defers Closure After Amicus Anupam Gupta’s Passionate Plea for Justice
The case was started in the tumultuous months of August 2017. A special court of CBI in Panchkala on August 25 of the same year found the head of the Dera Sacha Sauda, Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, guilty in a case of raping two of his adherents, women. The ruling served as a catalyst to a binge of violence, mainly in Panchkulawhere tens of thousands of Dera followers had gathered in the days before the verdict.