Rohtak: A CBI special court on Monday sentenced Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim to 10 years in jail for the 2002 rape case.

CBI judge Jagdeep Singh traveled to Rohtak's Sunaria jail via chopper to pronounce the quantum of sentence on Monday morning.

The defence lawyer, in his end contentions, asserted that the Dera chief is a social laborer who has works for the welfare of individuals, so the judge should take a merciful view and give him least sentence.

The 50-year-old so called godman, likewise the lead on-screen character of MSG film establishment, was held liable of assaulting two "sadhvis" or female adherents 15 years inside the Dera premises on Friday evening.

Following the conviction, destructive mobs resulted in Panchkula and encompassing regions, slaughtering 38 and harming more than 250 individuals. The crowd – comprising of Dera devotees – set scores of vehicles, including private and government autos and media vans, ablaze. Police and fire unit vehicles were additionally determined to flame. A few mediapersons were likewise harmed in the occurrence.

A multilayer security cordon was tossed around the Rohtak locale imprison with 28 segments of paramilitary powers being conveyed in the territory. The armed force was on standby in Rohtak and Sirsa. Check in time has been put in few locale of Punjab and Haryana. Security has upgraded outside Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar's habitation. Delhi-NCR has likewise been set on high ready.

Security powers recuperated two AK-47s, a Mauser, two guns, poles and sticks amid examination and hunts. Five gatekeepers from Ram Rahim's Z-Plus security, which has now been taken away, have been captured after they endeavored to deter the policemen who were taking Ram Rahim to imprison.

Throughout the end of the week, Army positioned itself outside the Dera home office grounds, which is spread more than 700-sections of land of land. About 30,000 Dera devotees inside the grounds declined to clear the home office, notwithstanding rehashed Army orders.

Censuring the savagery, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in his 'Mann ki Baat' deliver to the country on Sunday, stated, "Nobody has the privilege to go rogue for the sake of one's convictions, adding that I need to guarantee my compatriots that the individuals who act as a vigilante and are on the way of rough concealment, regardless of whether it is a gathering or a man – neither this nation nor any legislature will endure it."