Honeypreet Insan, the ‘adopted daughter’ of Gurmeet Ram Rahim, who also acted in a few films alongside the jailed Dera chief, has been arrested by the Haryana Police. Absconding since the past 32 days, she along with another woman travelling in an Innova, were apprehended by ACP, Panchkula, Mukesh Malhotra from Zirakpur-Panchkula Highway at around 2 pm on Tuesday. Honeypreet will be produced in a local court on Wednesday.
Earlier today, Honeypreet told a TV channel from an “undisclosed” location that she was seeking legal opinion on her next step and was likely to move the Punjab and Haryana High Court.
She claimed she was ‘devastated’ by allegations that she had incited the Panchkula violence following the arrest of Gurmeet Ram Rahim.
She also maintained that her ‘Papa’ was innocent and that his arrest following conviction in the two rape cases had left her ‘depressed’. Priyanka Taneja alias Honeypreet, 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.
Portraying the dutiful daughter, she averred that every daughter remains with her father, and she 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.”
While Honeypreet had accompanied Ram Rahim from the sect headquarters at Sirsa to a special CBI court in Panchkula on August 25, she had also accompanied him in a chopper when he was flown to Rohtak to be lodged in jail. However, post that she had been untraceable. She claims that she was not running away from law and was still trying to come to terms that Ram Rahim had been sentenced.
“Try to understand what my condition was,” she pleads. “The woman who used to make patriotic films with his father (Ram Rahim), the woman in whom her father had infused spirit of patriotism over the years, he goes behind bars, which was unthinkable for me.”
