Gurugram: Sunil Sangwan, whose tenure as Sunaria jail superintendent noticed rape and homicide convict Gurmeet Ram Rahim launched six occasions on parole or furlough, has joined the BJP. He’s prone to contest the 5 October Haryana meeting polls from Charkhi Dadri.
He’s the son of former minister Satpal Sangwan, who left the Congress two months in the past to hitch the BJP.
Such was the haste to make sure his induction into the BJP Monday that the Haryana authorities on Sunday expedited the method to simply accept his software for voluntary retirement from the put up of superintendent on the Gurugram district jail.
The director common (DG) of prisons despatched an e mail to all jail superintendents within the state Sunday, directing them to difficulty ‘no-due’ certificates the identical day. The DG’s letter mentioned: “Sunil Sangwan, Superintendent Jail, District Jail, Gurugram, has requested for voluntary retirement. It’s subsequently requested to ship the No Due Certificates in favour of Sh. Sunil Sangwan, Superintendent Jail. Gurugram, by 4 PM.” After “4 pm”, the phrases “right now earlier than night positively”, had been scribbled with a pen.
The BJP had fielded wrestler Babita Phogat from Charkhi Dadri within the 2019 Haryana meeting elections. Nevertheless, she got here in third after polling 24,786 votes (19.59 p.c vote share), adopted by Satpal Sangwan, who contested as a Jannayak Janata Occasion (JJP) candidate and polled 29,577 votes (23.38 p.c of the vote share).
Babita Phogat has already begun her marketing campaign for the upcoming Haryana meeting elections.
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Sunil served in Sunaria jail for five years
Although official information point out his first identify as Sunil, he writes “Suneel Sangwan” on his Fb web page.
He has two kids — a daughter and a son — each of whom are captains within the Military.
Sangwan had been in authorities service for over 22 years, he joined the Haryana Prisons Division in 2002. He has served because the superintendent of a number of jails, together with the Sunaria jail in Rohtak, the place he served for 5 years. It was the identical jail the place Dera Sacha Sauda chief Ram Rahim Singh was serving a sentence for raping two of his girls disciples and murdering a journalist, Ram Chander Chhatrapati.
At the moment out of jail for 21 days on furlough, Ram Rahim Singh has been within the information for his repeated paroles and furloughs.
Of the ten events during which Ram Rahim Singh was on parole or furlough, six had been when Sangwan was superintendent of the jail the place the Dera chief was stored in custody.
Ram Rahim Singh’s releases embody a one-day emergency parole on 24 October 2000, a one-day emergency parole on 21 Might 2021, a 21-day furlough forward of the 2022 Punjab meeting elections from 7 to twenty-eight February, a 30-day parole forward of the 2022 Haryana municipal elections from 17 June to 16 July, a 40-day parole forward of the 2022 Adampur meeting byelection from 15 October to 25 November, and a 40-day parole from 21 January to three March 2023 forward of the Ayodhya Ram Mandir consecration ceremonies.
The Haryana Good Conduct Prisoners (Short-term Launch) Act 2022 empowers a jail superintendent to suggest instances of prisoners for parole or furlough to the district Justice of the Peace, however the order of launch is issued by the competent authority alone, which might be the deputy commissioner or divisional commissioner, relying on the prisoner’s sentence.
Satpal has modified events through the years
Satpal Sangwan resigned from his place as sub-divisional officer (SDO) within the telecom division earlier than getting into politics in 1996. He contested from the Charkhi Dadri seat as a candidate of Bansi Lal’s (often called the architect of recent Haryana, and former chief minister of the state) Haryana Vikas Occasion (HVP) and gained.
Satpal thought-about former Bansi Lal his political mentor and was additionally near him. Bansi Lal’s household is now with the BJP, and his political legacy is being carried ahead by Kiran Choudhary, who’s a BJP member within the Rajya Sabha.
Satpal turned an MLA from Charkhi Dadri for the primary time in 1996 on a HVP ticket and later contested a number of meeting elections.
In 2009, he gained the meeting election on a Haryana Janhit Congress celebration ticket and have become an MLA. After that, he turned the cooperation minister within the Bhupinder Hooda authorities (2009 to 2014). Within the 2014 Haryana meeting elections, he confronted defeat on a Congress ticket.
Within the 2019 Haryana meeting elections, when the Congress denied him a ticket, he joined the JJP and contested the meeting elections. In that election, he was defeated by Impartial candidate Sombir Sangwan and got here second.
(Edited by Radifah Kabir)
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