Probe into diaries may sting Honey

Chandigarh : SIRSA Police have finally recovered two private diaries of Honeypreet Insan, sources told INDIA TODAY TV on Sunday. Police, during the sanitisation drive, had seized all documents, gadgets and computers from Dera Sacha Sauda, which are now being investigated. A scrutiny has led to the discovery of two diaries, which have details about offerings, donations, income and disbursement of cash. Initial scrutiny has found that the pocket diary was used to enter details about the income from various Dera Sacha Sauda branches. A photocopy of the diary has also been handed over to the income tax department ,which on the directions of Punjab and Haryana high court, is investigating the Dera’s income and allegations of money laundering. Police are also trying to find out whether the diary has details about the funding of the August 25 Panchkula violence. The Dera had allegedly spent `5 crore on funding the violence on Honeypreet’s directions. It has come to light during investigations that Honeypreet had earmarked `5 crore, which was allegedly handed over to the Dera gang, including Chamkaur Singh, who headed the Panchkula branch of Dera Sacha Sauda. According to police sources, `1.25 crore was given to Chamkaur by PR Nain, vicepresident of the Dera management committee on Honeypreet’s directions. Police had also recovered an unspent amount of `25 lakh from Chamkaur after his arrest. He had reportedly told police that Honeypreet was the mastermind of the August 25 Panchkula violence. According to a senior police officer from Sirsa, cops also recovered another diary in which Honeypreet noted down regular happenings in her life. Sources say some of the pages have details about her film shoots and others about her relation with jailed Dera chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim. In fact, police are scrutinising this diary as they want to prove Honeypreet’s involvement in th Panchkula violence. According to sources Honeypreet had mentioned contact numbers, addresses and names of some staunch non-resident and resident Indian Dera supporters who were expected to help Ram Rahim in case his supporters were successful in whisking him away from police custody. Police, however, are tightlipped about these details. Presently lodged in Ambala Central Jail, Honeypreet is in fact an emotional, optimistic and romantic human being, and is fond of writing down her thoughts on a diary as and when they came, say prison officials. One of the diaries recovered earlier, believed to have been written by Honeypreet in her teens, had details about her favourite actors such as Salman Khan, Aamir Khan and Kajol. She had also pasted their photos on the pages of this diary. Police sources said Honeypreet was an ardent fan of Kajol. Honeypreet used her real name, i.e. Priyanka Taneja, in the diary and also mentioned the names of her other siblings in the diary. The diary had couplets and popular two-liners about love, broken hearts and betrayal. One of the songs in the diary was dedicated to Ram Rahim.