Indian guru sentenced to 20 years in prison for rape

 Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, center, greets followers as he arrives for a press conference in New Delhi, India, in October 2016.

A controversial Indian spiritual guru has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for rape, India's Central Bureau of Investigation announced Monday.


Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, the head of a spiritual sect known as Dera Sacha Sauda, was convicted on Friday of raping two of his followers in a case that dates back to 1999.
He was sentenced to two consecutive 10-year terms, one for each conviction. Singh was sentenced behind locked doors inside Rohtak jail, where he arrived by helicopter Friday from a courthouse in the northern city of Panchkula.

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