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Gurmeet Ram Rahim ad controversy: After apology, The Hindu says it won’t even charge for the ad

The September 12 Delhi, Mohali, and North India editions of The Hindu carried a full-page advertisement titled “What is Dera Sacha Sauda? (Facts vs Fiction)” for the sect’s leader, Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, a man convicted of raping two women disciples by a CBI court in 2017, sentenced to 20 years in prison, and currently out on a 21-day furlough. Dainik Bhaskar’s Delhi edition ran an identical advertisement in Hindi.

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