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Entity Dera Sacha Sauda

Dera Sacha Sauda, the Sirsa-based socio-spiritual organisation led by Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh.

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The Hindu’s Ram Rahim advertisement tests the boundary between paid advocacy and editorial trust

The Hindu clearly labelled Dera Sacha Sauda’s full-page defence of convicted rapist Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh as an advertisement, but the episode still raises a distinct media-accountability question: what responsibility does a publisher retain for consequential claims it is paid to carry? The evidence supports scrutiny of advertising standards, not assumptions about The Hindu’s motive…