After being on the run for over a month, Honeypreet Insan, adopted daughter of jailed Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim, was arrested on Tuesday by the Haryana police.

Priyanka Taneja alias Honeypreet was arrested on the Zirakpur-Patiala road in Punjab, Haryana Police DGP BS Sandhu said.

Honeypreet tops the list of 43 people ‘wanted’ by the Haryana police in connection with the incidents of violence that left 41 people dead and several injured following Ram Rahim’s conviction in a rape case on August 25.

Talking to mediapersons at Panchkula, Police Commissioner AS Chawla said: “She is being brought to Panchkula for questioning in connection with the incidents of violence.

“Her role in the violence will be probed...who provided her shelter or support during her run from police will also be produced. She will be produced before a court (in Panchkula) tomorrow and we will seek her police remand.”

Chawla further said another woman who was accompanying her was also taken into custody.

Honeypreet’s arrest came hours after she appeared on two private TV channels. She had accompanied Ram Rahim from the sect headquarters at Sirsa to a special CBI court in Panchkula on August 25. After the Dera chief’s conviction that day, she also accompanied him in a chopper when he was flown to Rohtak to be lodged in a jail.

There had been no trace of Honeypreet after the evening of August 25.

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