Dera Sacha Sauda head Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh faces the prospects of harsher punishment on Monday as he has been separately convicted of raping two women, thus making him a 'repeat offender'.
When Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) special judge Jagdeep Singh decides on the quantum of punishment on August 28, the sentencing will be for two convictions.
The FIR was registered on charges of rape and criminal intimidation.
The CBI investigators had to make strenuous efforts to make the two complainants depose before the magistrate under Section 164 of the Criminal Procedure Code to make their statements admissible as evidence before court.
Sources said not only CBI investigators but also lawyers of the agency conducting trial were under tremendous pressure to withdraw from the case.