Sirsa: The adopted daughter of jailed Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim, after playing hide-and-seek for near about a month, Honeypreet finally appeared before media today and claimed that she is innocent.
Honeypreet said that her relationship with her adopted father is very much clear and there is not illicit relationship between her and her father, she also claims that she is completely innocent.
Honeypreet Insan, who has been on the run for over a month, says she is “devastated” by allegations that she incited the Panchkula violence.
She told a TV news channel that her “Papa” was innocent and that his conviction on August 25 in two rape cases has left her “depressed”.
Priyanka Taneja alias Honeypreet, who tops the list of 43 people ‘wanted’ by the Haryana Police in connection with the incidents of violence that left at least 41 people dead and several injured following Ram Rahim’s conviction, said she was seeking legal opinion on her next step and was likely to move the Punjab and Haryana High Court here.
Honeypreet, 36, against whom a lookout notice and later an arrest warrant was issued by the Haryana Police, told a TV channel that allegations leveled against her are not true.
Ram Rahim’s daughter Honeypreet claims her innocence before media:
“Was I present with the arsonists (during the mayhem in Panchkula on August 25), how are they leveling such allegations,” she said while sitting inside a car at an undisclosed location.
On being asked about her image being portrayed as a “villain”, a “conspirator”, Honeypreet replied, “How are they making me an accused. I was there with my Papa (Ram Rahim) and discharging my duty as a daughter (on August 25).”
“Every daughter remains with her father, I went with him. Have you heard me saying a word where I instigate people. I had gone there (to CBI court in Panchkula) with a hope that my father will return by evening, but when he was held guilty, I went into depression, how could I think about anything else, I was totally devastated,” she said.
Honeypreet had accompanied Ram Rahim from sect headquarters at Sirsa to a special CBI court in Panchkula on August 25.
After Dera chief’s conviction on that day, she also accompanied him in a chopper when he was flown to Rohtak to be lodged in a jail.
There has been no trace of Honeypreet after the evening of August 25. However, she said she was not running away from law and was still trying to come to terms that Ram Rahim had been sentenced. She also said she was “devastated” when she was made an accused in incidents of violence.
